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Are you sure you're responsible for your doubt of societal drinking standards? There's been a shadow of teetotaling trying to creep into the historic human comf

Are you sure you're responsible for your doubt of societal drinking standards? There's been a shadow of teetotaling trying to creep into the historic human comfort habit, ever since the failure of prohibitionism. Abstention is just an insidious branch of social overreach, where my homemade beer is equated with the old soak waiting for the liquor store to open every day, and for whose benefit? I present this not just to mock your position. I find your argument myopic, that you take drinkers for sheep ignorant of the world around them. For all the people that may be true of, none of them will be enlightened by you here - and this leaves your argument a holier-than-thou sermon preached to the choir. We know we aren't immune to propaganda, but if you want to argue that alcoholism is a socially-mediated disease, you must not bury the lede.

vintermann 3y ago
Try to be more succinct, please. I find it easy to say that not drinking is a conscious choice. I think it's much harder for you to argue that drinking this much, but not that much, is a conscious choice. Obviously neither of our choices are made in a vacuum. Alcoholism is not a disease. It's a description of behaviour, often abused as an explanation of behaviour. Drinking to excess is obviously socially motivated in most cases, I don't think I have to argue that? Either way, if you look up the catalog definitions of addiction/alcoholism it's easy to see they're socially relative - many of the criteria are effectively about whether society has a problem with your drinking/behavior. And if they drink more themselves, they'll probably have less of that.