Another angle: ego. Never drank in my life till 25 due to growing up in India and luckily finding myself among folks who didn't drink most of the time. I then

Another angle: ego. Never drank in my life till 25 due to growing up in India and luckily finding myself among folks who didn't drink most of the time. I then had a chance to decide without baggage and never drink in my life. The voluntary reasons are several, but the primary is the fact that I respect my authority over my mind too much. Even if you're slightly drunk, you're legally not allowed to drive. Neither are you considered "able" to give consent for things. Suggests to me (rightly?) That we momentarily don't consider people who are drunk as human, but as some mentally challenged being that is incapable of good reason. I personally feel like voluntarily becoming a mentally challenged person just to get a buzz is just too demeaning, so it encourages me to stay dry. Why completely dry? It's always easiest to draw the line where it's absolutely clear, and with "addictive" things like drinking it's easiest to draw it at 0.