I think you’re engaging in the exact sort of binary thinking that is the problem. I’m saying: many people have enjoyed the effects of socializing and drinking

I think you’re engaging in the exact sort of binary thinking that is the problem. I’m saying: many people have enjoyed the effects of socializing and drinking alcohol for thousands of years. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to demonize it since it seems to have demonstrated its utility. You somehow read that as: “I need alcohol to have fun”. Your reading is wrong.