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People want to get fucked up. Society will find a way and sanction it.
Yeah but it doesn't have to be alcohol like it doesn't have to be heroin. Alcohol is worse than heroin by just about any scientific metric, and yet we just choose to view them very differently because of tradition.
Isn't heroin, like, insanely addictive?
Yes, almost as addictive as alcohol even!
I honestly don't know about that. I don't want to fall for drug paranoia propaganda, but there's people who literally take heroin substitutes every day, but I've never heard of anyone addicted to non-alcoholic beer.
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It is depressing how romanticised and popularised alcohol is for certain effects which dismiss others. The fact that alcohol is so dangerous to everyone, disregards the prior logic which the age gates and the recommended unit amounts made us believe.
Hollywood has drinking scenes multiple times in every movie. Busy day? drink. Out with coworkers? drink. Character in crisis? drink. Character needs to be lovable? drink.
Yeah, and my doctor recently told me about how much worse it is for women.
https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/women-health/drinking-its-different-for-women/
It causes a lot of problems but also its one of the things that make life worth living
i hope your life gets better
That's terribly sad.
I hope you can find things to live for soon :(
wow.. that's really pathetic.
Doesn't alcohol also just sort of happen whenever wild yeasts are around?
In small amounts yes. It takes A LOT of naturally-fermented apples to get drunk.
Yeah. Botulism just kinda happens, too.
In soil, sure. For it to happen in food requires warm, anaerobic conditions. These are conditions everyone in food prep is taught to avoid and for which restaurants are inspected and graded, with the most egregious offenders even shut down.
Don't forget tetanus. And polio
These threads always bring out the teetotalers. Mind your own business.
I do until i go to another loved one's funeral, it gets frustrating.
Yeah it’s really shocking when a thread about the dangers of alcohol brings out the people decrying the dangers of alcohol.
Not getting killed by a violent drunk or a drunk driver is my business.
JFC that's a disingenuous argument. I don't have the time to unpack that mess.
32 people day are killed by drunks. They were all minding their own business, rummy.
How many are killed by sobers?
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