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Related: if you look at a map of worldwide alcohol consumption, there's a pretty prominent dry belt stretching from North Africa to Pakistan.
by jmopp 3y ago
Related: if you look at a map of worldwide alcohol consumption, there's a pretty prominent dry belt stretching from North Africa to Pakistan.
- HideousKojima 3y agoAlso in Utah alcohol consumption is 1.36 gallons per adult per year, national average is 2.45.
- anonporridge 3y agoThe next step would be to do a cost benefit analysis of these places to see if the benefits of a low alcohol society outweigh the downsides of what it takes to get there. There are many bad things that come from living in states with heavy religious subjugation like the above examples of the Islamic world and the state of Utah, e.g. highly paternalistic and controlling attitudes toward women.
- chaxor 3y agoIt's important to separate variables appropriately here, since religion and/or bigotry is not the only way to make it to less alcohol. To make a statement such as less alcohol leads to bigotry would be ridiculous. Although on a somewhat unrelated note, unfortunately many areas of biological sciences make this category of error in publications often.