Its consequences do. To get drunk is to have your judgement impaired. Always. You cannot be counted on to think or act stably, which makes you a possible threat to yourself and all those around you.
The more you drink, the more you become a mindless husk reacting solely on whatever fragments of your former self still work.
Long-term it also means medicine, hospital visits, maybe even the need for a transplant. All those are in limited supply, which means your drinking problem will take time and resources away from people with actual unavoidable issues.
A drunk person is a problem and a burden. Their personal choice in this is worth less than the proven consequences of letting them roam free.
To be alive is to risk a personality-changing blot clot in your brain that makes you a risk to those around you. To eat browned foods is to risk transplant-necessitating cancer.
Are we going to throw people into sanitized plastic bubbles and ban interpersonal interaction?
A drunk person is a problem and a burden.
Assholes who want to ban fun are a burden but you don’t see me lobbying for the illegalisation of you.
Your options lack the freedom of choice aspect you’re advocating.
Doing your best to stay healthy doesn’t mean you automatically escape all health issues.
However, willingly walking into becoming a living hazard just to have a bit of fun is a choice only assholes you accuse me of being make every time they pick up a bottle.
Your options lack the freedom of choice aspect you’re advocating.
Because I don’t want people with guns to throw someone in a cage for having a li’l drinky-poo?
However, willingly walking into becoming a living hazard just to have a bit of fun is a choice only assholes you accuse me of being make every time they pick up a bottle.
I’m drinking right now and am neither an asshole nor a hazard.
I doubt you retain the mental capacity to realize whether you are in fact either of those.
Set up a camera before a drinking session, record yourself during and after it, then review your behavior when sober again.
Bonus points if it happens around other people.
Its consequences do. To get drunk is to have your judgement impaired. Always. You cannot be counted on to think or act stably, which makes you a possible threat to yourself and all those around you.
The more you drink, the more you become a mindless husk reacting solely on whatever fragments of your former self still work.
Long-term it also means medicine, hospital visits, maybe even the need for a transplant. All those are in limited supply, which means your drinking problem will take time and resources away from people with actual unavoidable issues.
A drunk person is a problem and a burden. Their personal choice in this is worth less than the proven consequences of letting them roam free.
To be alive is to risk a personality-changing blot clot in your brain that makes you a risk to those around you. To eat browned foods is to risk transplant-necessitating cancer.
Are we going to throw people into sanitized plastic bubbles and ban interpersonal interaction?
Assholes who want to ban fun are a burden but you don’t see me lobbying for the illegalisation of you.
Your options lack the freedom of choice aspect you’re advocating.
Doing your best to stay healthy doesn’t mean you automatically escape all health issues.
However, willingly walking into becoming a living hazard just to have a bit of fun is a choice only assholes you accuse me of being make every time they pick up a bottle.
Because I don’t want people with guns to throw someone in a cage for having a li’l drinky-poo?
I’m drinking right now and am neither an asshole nor a hazard.
I doubt you retain the mental capacity to realize whether you are in fact either of those.
Set up a camera before a drinking session, record yourself during and after it, then review your behavior when sober again.
Bonus points if it happens around other people.
I doubt …yer …face.