My father served as a role model for me, but not in the traditional sense. He was a mean drunk and would typically go through a half gallon of Gordon's Gin eve

My father served as a role model for me, but not in the traditional sense. He was a mean drunk and would typically go through a half gallon of Gordon's Gin every two or three days. Alcoholism ran in his family and also in my sister (now dry). I've avoided it by vowing to never become like he was. I never drink hard liquor and always limit my drinking (both frequency and quantity). I can understand why the US enacted the (short lived) Eighteenth Amendment, but in the end it all comes down to personal responsibility. Some people are better at this than others.