Alcohol debate thread. - Is Alcohol necessary?

A beverage or two once in a while is okay but people base their lives around alcohol, and that's not good.
 
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It only gets fun when you get up around the .400 mark, but that's really dangerous. Better close one eye or do some bumps if you're gonna drive.

It's completely unnecessary and bad for your health. I love the fat, old guys that say, "You can't trust a man that can't trust himself with a drink" and, "You don't drink? What are you? Some kind of health freak pussy?" as they waddle sideways into a door frame. I just don't want to lose control of my facilities, ever. Even one beer or a shot of liquor will throw a person's balance off.
 
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I'm an alcoholic. I make no bones about it, and if anyone gave enough of a damn to really look, they could see the signs that pretty much every post I make is some variation of a drunkpost. That's not a cry for attention or help, it just is what it is.

I greatly enjoy alcohol, even though I know I do not need it. I don't really like drinking the hard stuff much, it makes you a blithering idiot very quickly. I like sipping on a nice strong or weak beer or enjoying a nice bottle of wine once I've gotten everything I need to get done out of the way and I can just chill.

I get the teetotaler mindset too, but banning something like alcohol is pretty stupid. That's been tried, and it didn't really work out very well.
 
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I am too unpredictable when I drink. I can either ride a nice buzz or get angry and that's never a good time. I accept the world has changed and that the best days are behind me but damn if it doesn't just piss me the FUCK off sometimes.

Whole fam were drinkers. Experienced a lot of fights and shit when I was younger - nothing like hearing yelling and a bang, and you come out of your room to your dad in his underwear whose just tossed a chair at your mom. Good times! (One morning Dad had a black eye, he joked that Mom finally gottem, but in reality he just hit his mug on the porcelain throne as he was worshipping face-first. She froze plums to throw at him after that lmao). I have so many stories and most all of them are just funny as fuck. Ever try to open a can of soup that you broke the tab off of? Dad says no worries, I will just use a fucking chisel! (protip - condensed tomato soup does not come out of curtains well). RIP you two, God sure has his hands full.

Once a month or so I will strap one on and hear music, move my body around a bit. Since I've gotten older I realize that a hangover is now a two-day affair as well, so that puts me right off the hard stuff. The positive is that I can get pretty buzzed up on only three beers.

Just smoke weed or chew a gummy or two. Much more enjoyable, no hangover, and gummies keep your lungs clear. I don't see a downside at all to weed vs. the crazy carnival that can happen when alcohol is added to the mix. I abhor public smokers though, keep that shit in your fucking house nigga.
 
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Lunar Eclipse Paradox said:
There has been arguments regarding Weed. Many people often become addicted to it. Others say it's a good smoke to pass the time while others say It's not good for anyone as it takes away their agency when they get high. This is a debate thread regarding the necessity of Weed.
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I think if you can practice moderation, there's nothing wrong with drinking - but most people have a totally skewed idea of moderation. I think that if alcohol is causing you any sort of problems you should stop partaking immediately, but many people fail to recognize it as a source of problems. Drinking at bars is the default social setting for many people, and combined with the fact that many problem drinkers can live (outwardly) functional lives for years, it's a recipe for endless cope and rationalization.

I find my country's drinking culture to be drab and complacent. It's demoralizing to see so many young people completely lacking in ambition and choosing instead to engage in an NPC-tier activity that most of them admit in private is not that interesting. It's the epitome of stagnation, not to mention the other dangerous and degenerate shit (e.g. retarded bar fights, drugs and the inevitable seedy fast food people eat afterwards) that goes hand-in-hand with the bar/club scene, which has an even greater capacity to lead people down the path to pointless risk and personal mediocrity.

Alcohol never makes people more interesting, and while it's fun and healthy to lower one's inhibitions and let loose once in a while,it's very easy to overdo it. I've seen grown-ass men well into their mid-twenties make complete fools of themselves for lack of temperance, and past a certain age it's more alienating than entertaining.
 
Alcohol is more of a tool than anything. People who abuse it have deeper problems, and if alcohol somehow ceased to exist they would find some other vice. No matter how hard they try people are not going to ever stop drinking. Here in VA you can only get liquor at the ABC store and I think they made the best decision with "Well, if people are going to drink we might as well be the ones making money off it."

I do think it's funny how alcohol is one of those hypocrisies of society. It's a drug that gets you fucked up, but for some reason every other drug is banned and hated. I understand why it's that way with something like meth or heroine, but weed or acid won't get you nearly as fucked up as liquor can.
 
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People who're fighty angry drunks are usually just fighty angry retards even when they're not drunk.
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Or miserable, resentful retards who have the restraint and/or sense to realize they couldn't hold their own in a fight when they're not drunk
 
Alcohol was fun, until it wasn't, anymore . But to answer your direct question, t is necessary to atop the tremors..
 
It is not for me to decide whether alcohol is or isn't necessary for anyone but myself.
 
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