> Tell that to the women who started the prohibition movement because they and their children were being beaten while their husbands drank their earnings away.

> Tell that to the women who started the prohibition movement because they and their children were being beaten while their husbands drank their earnings away. And how prevalent is that "wife beating" today? Alcohol exists, and "wife beating" has come down significantly. There are variables other than alcohol, and alcohol plays a very small part. > Alcohol (like all drugs) has a very dark side (but it is just one side). To sweep it away so blithely is, IMO, exceedingly naive. And to take it too seriously is ridiculous. > "Your view is myopic. And my view is the only view that matters." Like yours? Your view is the only one that matters, and other viewpoints in your opinion are exceedingly naive?