Recovering alcoholics like to say "just because I can't handle my booze, doesnt mean those who can shouldn't be free to imbibe and enjoy themselves.' Well, if drinking was the type of drug that only affected the user I would agree wholeheartedly. But, as we all know, it doesn't work that way. You dont have to be a drunk driving wife beating maniac to negatively affect those around you while intoxicated. Social drinkers become lazy parents, neglecting simple tasks of caring for their children when they have to nurse a hangover the entire next day. They make for louzy partners, co-workers, friends, and bosses. Alcohol affects the brain and every other organ to react in very negative ways as it tries to detox the body from the poison. Not all alcoholics kill people driving drunk or beat their kids. So what!! not all psychopaths are serial killers but they’re still dangerous people to be avoided.
To say live and let live, everyone has the right to have fun without interference, I agree. That's why I rail against drinkers because THEY prevent people from having fun by having to deal with their obnoxious intoxication and detoxification. If you must intoxicate yourself in order to be around people and have fun, then do it in the safety of your own home, away from children and animals and the internet. That way you only endanger yourself allowing everyone else to have fun and enjoy themselves, without having to deal with your charades. It's not fun being around loud, repetitive drinkers and people who can handle life without dumbing and numbing themselves down shouldn't have to accept and tolerate such madness.
“NO body has a body that is meant to handle alcohol.” And that is 100% true. Alcohol is a drug, an intoxicant, and no human body is designed to tolerate it with ease. Just because we as a society have come to believe that tying one on or relaxing with a glass of wine or drinking to such excess that we puke is normal doesn’t mean that it’s what we are supposed to do or designed to do. Doctors smoked in the 1950s and suggested it to patients, even appeared in cigarette ads endorsing their favorite brand. Just because they did that doesn’t mean they were right. It just means that we accepted it as being right. It just means we didn’t question.” Holly Whitaker
