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Forcing alcoholic drinks to have a less addictive product is a much better way to protect young people’s brains than an alcohol age limit is (and frankly adults

Forcing alcoholic drinks to have a less addictive product is a much better way to protect young people’s brains than an alcohol age limit is (and frankly adults need help there too).

bix6 3mo ago
What’s your point? We do this. NA beer now exists. Beer and wine places can’t sell liquor. Alcohol sales aren’t 24/7 in many places.
nkrisc 3mo ago
Yes, that would help. Putting regulatory caps on the strength of alcoholic drinks would probably go a long way towards reducing harm across all of society. Of course there will be bootleggers, but the benefits would probably outweigh any of the incidental drawbacks. And I say this as someone who drinks. I would be fine with regulation like this and making a sacrifice of something small I enjoy if it meant greater good across society.
ajsnigrutin 3mo ago
In quite a few countries, you can drink less-acoholic drinks, eg. beer and wine, much younger than high-alcohol drinks, eg. whiskey, vodka, etc. Germany is one such example.
YurgenJurgensen 3mo ago
Good idea. There’s an objective measure of alcohol content. All you need to do to make this analogy work is to create one for social media. Best of luck with that.
inigyou 3mo ago
Young people are drinking much less alcohol now. Some people call it a crisis. It's probably related to the reason they date less and have less sex and do less of all the other things you're not supposed to do but people did anyway, and that reason probably has something to do with social media taking their attention instead.
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- Noaidi 3mo ago
  We do not care where we get our dopamine hits. The most likely place is the easiest, and right now, for teens, it is social media. I am afraid this is setting kids up for abusing drugs and alchohol in the future.
- danaris 3mo ago
  ...Or, y'know...It could, just possibly...have something to do with the fact that no one has the money to engage in all of those things, especially young people.

Forcing alcoholic drinks to have a less addictive product is a much better way to protect young people’s brains than an alcohol age limit is (and frankly adults need help there too).

bix6 3mo ago

What’s your point? We do this. NA beer now exists. Beer and wine places can’t sell liquor. Alcohol sales aren’t 24/7 in many places.

nkrisc 3mo ago

Yes, that would help. Putting regulatory caps on the strength of alcoholic drinks would probably go a long way towards reducing harm across all of society. Of course there will be bootleggers, but the benefits would probably outweigh any of the incidental drawbacks. And I say this as someone who drinks. I would be fine with regulation like this and making a sacrifice of something small I enjoy if it meant greater good across society.

ajsnigrutin 3mo ago

In quite a few countries, you can drink less-acoholic drinks, eg. beer and wine, much younger than high-alcohol drinks, eg. whiskey, vodka, etc. Germany is one such example.

YurgenJurgensen 3mo ago

Good idea. There’s an objective measure of alcohol content. All you need to do to make this analogy work is to create one for social media. Best of luck with that.

inigyou 3mo ago

Young people are drinking much less alcohol now. Some people call it a crisis. It's probably related to the reason they date less and have less sex and do less of all the other things you're not supposed to do but people did anyway, and that reason probably has something to do with social media taking their attention instead.

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Noaidi 3mo ago
We do not care where we get our dopamine hits. The most likely place is the easiest, and right now, for teens, it is social media. I am afraid this is setting kids up for abusing drugs and alchohol in the future.
danaris 3mo ago
...Or, y'know...It could, just possibly...have something to do with the fact that no one has the money to engage in all of those things, especially young people.