If you subscribe to this, it's easy to see how drinking can be a vicious feedback loop. You drink, do whatever that is you do, then feel "ashamed" after you sob

If you subscribe to this, it's easy to see how drinking can be a vicious feedback loop. You drink, do whatever that is you do, then feel "ashamed" after you sober up, then drink more just to dull your view. Many spiral out of control like this without their families or coworkers even knowing how far astray from the "path" directed by the conscious compass they are. Another interesting point is that "stupefiers" allow you to do things your "conscience" wouldn't allow you otherwise. Tolstoy brings up things like murdering or stealing, but there are also beneficial things like socializing or creative process. Yet, regardless of the positives, it seems like the health detriments of alcohol are becoming more and more accepted by society. I noticed that less and less younger people drink these days, and I'm seeing more and more N/A options in bars and stores, at least in some parts of the U.S.