Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Well if not practically at least ideologically. Because alcohol is a problem for all of society, people in the UK now in most cases drink specifically to get completely drunk. Then they start harming people and themselves and causing a big headache to the health services and anyone else who comes across their path. Plus it completely wrecks entire lives for serious alcholics, they might choose to drink at first but they quickly become its slave.

To put it bluntly, alcohol is EVIL. It goes unchallenged because it is not dangerous in moderation, its problems just grow unnoticed like a cancer, but it can't be challenged because then moderate drinkers say they are having their freedom removed.

Get the problem at the source. People need to learn to have fun without being mildly intoxicated, it just needs to be removed from the culture.
No.

Alcohol is not evil. It is a molecular compound.

Even if it is widely abused, that does not make alcohol evil.

It is that vilification of a mere substance that avoids the real issue; personal responsibility.

Until you have people take responsibility for their actions, and realize that it is their reckless actions, their decisions to abuse alcohol, that lead to the problems, you won't solve any of the issues you are worried about.

And to the OP - I see nothing wrong with imbibing a bit. I don't drink often myself, only really once, maybe twice, a week. But I wasn't raised in the prohibition/anti-alcohol tradition.

CR