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I'm sort of in the same camp. I don't drink every day, but when the mood hits it just makes everything more fun. My dad drank every day. The first thing he did

I'm sort of in the same camp. I don't drink every day, but when the mood hits it just makes everything more fun. My dad drank every day. The first thing he did when he got home from work was make a Manhattan and he had a glass with him until he went to bed. He was never aggressive, cruel, or unpleasant when he drank, just relaxed and happy. It definitely affected his health as he got older, and there was a period where he stopped. He ended up dying of liver cancer in his seventies, which was metastatic from lung cancer (he was a smoker until his fifties) but I'm sure the drinking didn't help matters. Interestingly I've never used any other intoxicants. I've never smoked tobacco or weed, never used hallucinogenics or anything else. Booze is enough and I enjoy it. These days it's mostly whiskies in the 100+ proof range. Nice to have neat and just sip. I don't drink beer much anymore. I think everyone makes decisions about what they like and don't like in life. Some people like to drink. So what. We all end up in the ground eventually.

ido 9y ago
Empathically, yes we all end up in the ground but the way there can make a big difference and you may only really regret it when it's too late to do something about it (general you, not you personally - occasional drinking is far less hazardous than being an alcoholic). My father is now 76 and smoked, ate badly and did no excercise his whole life. He knew it was bad for him and started seeing the effects for decades, but had the same attitude as above. Right now, and for the past several years, his life can be fairly described as "would have been better off dead" because of the health implications of such choices. I'm not exaggerating for the sake of argument, I would literally prefer to commit suicide if I was in that situation (he is no longer capable of doing that). So yes everyone should make their own choices & you may end up like Churchill rather than my father, but seeing the effects first hand that there's a (likely) fate worse than death convinced me to never take that sort of attitude lightly.

ido 9y ago

Empathically, yes we all end up in the ground but the way there can make a big difference and you may only really regret it when it's too late to do something about it (general you, not you personally - occasional drinking is far less hazardous than being an alcoholic). My father is now 76 and smoked, ate badly and did no excercise his whole life. He knew it was bad for him and started seeing the effects for decades, but had the same attitude as above. Right now, and for the past several years, his life can be fairly described as "would have been better off dead" because of the health implications of such choices. I'm not exaggerating for the sake of argument, I would literally prefer to commit suicide if I was in that situation (he is no longer capable of doing that). So yes everyone should make their own choices & you may end up like Churchill rather than my father, but seeing the effects first hand that there's a (likely) fate worse than death convinced me to never take that sort of attitude lightly.