I have more of a problem with alcohol than smoking. I don't want it made illegal (that would be dumb, plus you can drink responsibly and it actually can be healthy for you), I just fucking hate drunks; they're far more of a problem for society than smoking ever will be.
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Alcohol has health benefits" is the world's biggest cope. Any health benefits attributed to alcohol can be gotten from a hundred other things that don't have alcohol's downsides. Alcohol damages your brain, kidneys, heart, liver, stomach, basically every major organ. It causes sexual dysfunction. It fucks with your ability to absorb calcium, causing you to piss your bones away. It's a Class 1 carcinogen.
But some studies have shown one glass of red wine a day could potentially have antioxidant properties! Yeah? So do grapes, dark chocolate, tea, and blueberries. Just eat some fucking blueberries.
"Drink responsibly" is pure nonsense. There is no responsible way to consume an addictive carcinogen that poisons every organ in your body. The very act of consuming alcohol is inherently irresponsible.
Anything you can say about any social evil, alcohol is worse. Yeah, porn addiction is gross and terrible, but I've never heard of someone plowing their SUV into a house because they were driving under the influence of porn. I've never seen someone whose life was fucked up from day one because their mom consumed porn during pregnancy. Yeah, gun violence kills way too many people per year, but between drunk-driving fatalities, cirrhosis, and other alcohol-related illnesses, alcohol kills almost twice as many people every year. And that's just deaths. How many tens of millions of lives have been ruined by all the ways alcohol can ruin a life? The number of people who kvetch about pornography, cigarettes, or gun violence but also condone the consumption of alcohol utterly astounds me. I know I'm the only lunatic on Earth who thinks this, but I think they're all hypocrites. They seriously grind my fucking gears.
I gave up fighting it years ago, though. The US tried banning alcohol once, it was a disaster. Live and let drink is the best I can do. All I ask in return is for people to stop trying to make me feel bad about simping for Fabrique Nationale's OnlyFNs.