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Certainly agree that 5x a week isn't normal or generally healthy. Risk-takers and mean people are more commonly heavy consumers of alcohol. They like the feeli
by abstractbarista 7y ago
Certainly agree that 5x a week isn't normal or generally healthy.
Risk-takers and mean people are more commonly heavy consumers of alcohol. They like the feeling as it eggs them on and self-justifies their actions.
But this does not mean that heavy consumers of alcohol are uncontrollably pushed to emulate the former.
Basically, the bad folks always ruin it for the docile rest of us.
- dpark 7y ago> Basically, the bad folks always ruin it for the docile rest of us. To some extent, yes. But those who want to normalize and justify their drinking also wish to absolve alcohol of all association with these things even though alcohol absolutely increases their incidence. You see the same bias in people who want to believe that drinking moderately is healthier than abstaining. There's nothing actually supporting this, but the few flawed studies that show some minor benefit get published over and over in the news because it's what people want to hear. In reality once you filter out people who abstain specifically because of their health, all cause mortality goes up with any level of drinking.