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Not only have humans had alcohol on a timescale long enough to induce evolutionary pressure (eliminating the "unnatural product" argument, which as evidenced by
by dogecoinbase 11y ago
Not only have humans had alcohol on a timescale long enough to induce evolutionary pressure (eliminating the "unnatural product" argument, which as evidenced by modern pharmacology is ridiculous regardless), but higher-alcohol products are a recent invention and, like everything else including water, consumption to excess is excluded.
It's entirely possible that reasonable quantities of alcohol are beneficial to a majority of people. Eventually, science will tell us if this is so. Your absolutism is ridiculous posturing.
- thrownaway2424 11y ago"Reasonable amounts of alcohol" are in fact responsible for the establishment of civilization, right up until the age of civil sanitation. Of course now that we have sanitation we don't need the alcohol any more.
- update 11y ago> responsible for the establishment of civilization "I would beg leave to suggest the propriety of erecting public Distilleries in different States. The benefits arising from the moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in All Armies, and are not to be disputed" --George Washington to John Hancock, 16 August 1777