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> kids I knew, from the first drink of their lives, it made them a different, less stressed, happier person. > Point is, some people genetically have an alcohol problem. Can you explain how you got from point A to point B above? I don't understand how your observation implies dependency, addiction, or any of the numerous problems that alcoholism causes in someone's life. It is also true that some people have inherite…
What are you arguing exactly... no one has an exceptional reaction to drinking that suggests a possible future problem, so I couldn't have seen one? alcohol has the same effect on everyone? no one gets addicted? alcoholism doesn't have a genetic component? I observe someone undergoes a huge personality change after drinking and seems a lot happier. I get a sense that this person might have difficulty consuming in mod…
> As a lot of drunks report, introducing alcohol into my body just felt like "Ooh, there we go. Here I am." Sort of like it elegantly completed a chemical equation of some kind.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25749/rob-delaney-red-...
I can't relate to that at all...alcohol has no interesting effect on me. There's a science in studying genes and chemistry, and a sort of science in just observing people and life and storing things and noticing patterns and developing hypotheses.