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> obvious that alcohol is literal poison and best to be avoided I'm really curious how this is obvious and how you know it. Anything is literally poison if con
by flippyhead 8y ago
> obvious that alcohol is literal poison and best to be avoided
I'm really curious how this is obvious and how you know it. Anything is literally poison if consume too much of it. Even water [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
- theNJR 8y agoI meant to set a timer to see how long it took for someone to bring this up. Do we really need to compare deaths and injuries from self-inflicted water intoxication to that of alchohol?
- imgabe 8y agoThis is a bad type of argument that has to stop. Water has literally nothing to do with how good alcohol is or isn't for you. If you insist on comparing the two, consider that if you stop drinking water you die in a couple of days. If you stop drinking alcohol you generally become healthier. "X isn't bad because literally anything can be bad in some scenario! If you eat too many bean sprouts you'll choke and die, so it must be fine to eat arsenic, right??"
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- flippyhead 7y agoI don't understand this counter argument. I drink less than a glass of wine a day and because quantity is a critical factor when considering a poison, to me, alcohol is literally not a poison. Just because some people drink too much, but not including amount in the argument don't you miss completely all the safe uses of it?