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 mu

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.