>[...] you like yourself less with your inhibitions removed but, in my experience, that is all alcohol does This is medically implausible; alcohol has been cle

>[...] you like yourself less with your inhibitions removed but, in my experience, that is all alcohol does This is medically implausible; alcohol has been clearly shown to negatively affect sleep, be addictive, reduce your coordination, and dehydrate you. It's also a carcinogen [0]. The snark with "Urgh" in response to reflective writing isn't helpful, either. However: >Alcohol has been with mankind since the beginning. This is potentially an interesting argument if further developed. I mentioned this book elsewhere in the comment section, but a philosophy professor wrote a book where he argues that "intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers." The Goodreads summary of the work continues: "Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication." I would argue that it's plausible and potentially worth discussion that alcohol has had a net positive effect on the development of human civilization, though in practice this has no bearing on whether an individual alcohol habit (especially in excess) is useful for the individual. [0] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohols-effects-body https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohols-e...