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Used wisely, it's a damned good drug.

ohdeargodno 1y ago
Don't get me wrong: I am not blaming anyone for liking alcohol, I have plenty of wine and various liquors, and it's a fun indulgence. There is no "used wisely" with alcohol. It is destructive from the first drop to the last. It is about one of the worst things you could put in your body. Alcohol gets a free pass because it's socially acceptable, but it is, objectively, dangerous, and every single doctor and research in the world agrees with that.
- southernplaces7 1y ago
  >every single doctor and research in the world agrees with that. Not at all the case. There's no shortage of medical debate on the dangers of alcohol and how bad they are. You're either lying or didn't bother to do a 5 minute internet search. >It is about one of the worst things you could put in your body. Really now? Since "worst" by definition implies being at or near the top of some ranking of terrible things, You'd rate ethanol in all its blends as near or above all the literally dozens of elemental and untold thousands of chemical substances that you could put into your body (even in very minute quantities) to die within minutes to seconds of doing it even once?
justinrubek 1y ago
Absolutely not true.
- southernplaces7 1y ago
  Aside from it indeed sometimes being true, grow a sense of humor, and calm the puritanical fear mongering a bit. Hundreds of millions of people spend their completely normal, normal-length lives occasionally drinking, socially lubricating themselves and enjoying a gathering with others and a few drinks without ever turning into raging alcoholics or imminent cases of cirrhosis, liver cancer and kidney failure. Billions of people have also done it across the centuries only to live lives of stunningly normal length and healthfulness too. Sometimes the emotional value of enjoying minor pleasures in life, and helping along your social life, balances out to being more healthy than what you'd get by fanatically screening all consumed things for all possible chemical dangers.

Don't get me wrong: I am not blaming anyone for liking alcohol, I have plenty of wine and various liquors, and it's a fun indulgence. There is no "used wisely" with alcohol. It is destructive from the first drop to the last. It is about one of the worst things you could put in your body. Alcohol gets a free pass because it's socially acceptable, but it is, objectively, dangerous, and every single doctor and research in the world agrees with that.

southernplaces7 1y ago
>every single doctor and research in the world agrees with that. Not at all the case. There's no shortage of medical debate on the dangers of alcohol and how bad they are. You're either lying or didn't bother to do a 5 minute internet search. >It is about one of the worst things you could put in your body. Really now? Since "worst" by definition implies being at or near the top of some ranking of terrible things, You'd rate ethanol in all its blends as near or above all the literally dozens of elemental and untold thousands of chemical substances that you could put into your body (even in very minute quantities) to die within minutes to seconds of doing it even once?

justinrubek 1y ago

Absolutely not true.

southernplaces7 1y ago
Aside from it indeed sometimes being true, grow a sense of humor, and calm the puritanical fear mongering a bit. Hundreds of millions of people spend their completely normal, normal-length lives occasionally drinking, socially lubricating themselves and enjoying a gathering with others and a few drinks without ever turning into raging alcoholics or imminent cases of cirrhosis, liver cancer and kidney failure. Billions of people have also done it across the centuries only to live lives of stunningly normal length and healthfulness too. Sometimes the emotional value of enjoying minor pleasures in life, and helping along your social life, balances out to being more healthy than what you'd get by fanatically screening all consumed things for all possible chemical dangers.