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I'm sorry if you feel the ACS is trying to force you to do something just by making a recommendation. Feeling a bit fragile, are you?
Of course I am fragile, I'm just a single individual thrown into the society of 8 billion people, what are you expecting
I mean, they are very different, unless you have the will of a wet noodle.
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Alcohol can have large benefits for helping people to bond and socialize. The article itself pointed this out. Of course people can socialize without alcohol. But I think it's plausible to argue that alcohol in moderation can improve and deepen the experience.
OK good point, but MDMA is much better for that according to many comment here on HN over the years. Also if I go drinking with someone I don't know well, the risk of their becoming violent is quite high.
Maybe but it's also much harder to obtain due to being illegal.
> the risk of their becoming violent is quite high.
Jesus who are you going drinking with??? That's not normal.
I'm amazed that this is still an ongoing discussion. All of these "studies" have been distracting with muddied data from a very simple, unambiguous scientific fact: alcohol is a poison. By its immediate biological effects, it literally is a poison. And you shouldn't drink poison. Decades of studies rationalizing that "actually, people who drink two glasses of wine a day live longer" and their ilk, have only ever dist…
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Of course I am fragile, I'm just a single individual thrown into the society of 8 billion people, what are you expecting
I'm expecting you to not confuse someone informing you with someone forcing you. I mean, they are very different, unless you have the will of a wet noodle.
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OK good point, but MDMA is much better for that according to many comment here on HN over the years. Also if I go drinking with someone I don't know well, the risk of their becoming violent is quite high.
> MDMA is much better for that according to many comment here on HN over the years. Maybe but it's also much harder to obtain due to being illegal. > the risk of their becoming violent is quite high. Jesus who are you going drinking with??? That's not normal.
They never include the mental benefits of alcohol. A night out drinking with friends or coworkers has mental health benefits that last, sometimes a lifetime.
In your experience, is the alcohol required to enjoy the night out? I've personally had nights out with and without alcohol that were just as much fun. I'm also very much a homebody though, so I'm not a great sample to really say either way.
If I wanted to go out at night in my city, and go somewhere that wasn't centered around booze I'd be going home around 8 or 9PM since nothing PG-13 is open late.
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> MDMA is much better for that according to many comment here on HN over the years. Maybe but it's also much harder to obtain due to being illegal. > the risk of their becoming violent is quite high. Jesus who are you going drinking with??? That's not normal.
>On average, roughly 40% of inmates who are incarcerated for violent offenses were under the influence of alcohol during the time of their crime. https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/alcohol/crimes/
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Tell it how it is. No cigarettes either. But it's OK to go camping and live in a cloud of smoke for days. I wonder how many cigarettes a day equals being in a big campground with fires everywhere for 2 days is?
Presumably the risk with cigarettes is addiction, whereas that is less of an issue with alcohol because alcohol is significantly less addictive than nicotine.
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I think it would be preferable to fuel your brain with something that isn't also a carcinogen.
Given that everything is a carcinogen if you read such studies, but most of it is nowhere important enough to worry about, I'm not sure...