I'm not saying everyone who drinks will become a raging or out of control alcoholic. I'm saying that alcohol is still the world's most dangerous LEGAL drug that forces its users to exercise some degree of self control and discipline and overtime it gets progressively harder to control. And as time goes on, your tolerance aka immunity to alcohol will inevitably increase, and add a boohoo situation and I'll bet that it won't take much for the alcohol user to drown in their miseries. I'll bet he or she will be hung over like no other.. trust me I've been there in the past.

Look, justifying someone's or your need for a crutch, regardless of what it is doesn't make it right.. hell, I'm sure some people use opiates or meth (hey, some like uppers) to float their boat and let off steam, all I'm saying is, regardless of what that crutch is, you'll forever be a slave to that crutch regardless of how infrequent you use it and that's sad. There are other much more effective outlets. one of my favorite lines from Jason Vale's book is:

Someone who uses alcohol as a crutch or a means to cope is "being like an ostrich". An ostrich hides its head in the sand thinking that if he does so, the predator can't see him. Much like the alcohol user, he too hides his head in the sand, thinking that alcohol will help the problem, yet the problem will still be there regardless of trying to hide from the situation. Obviously I'm paraphrasing, but you get the jist. Alcohol doesn't and won't solve anything.

I wanted to show that nobody really needs to drink alcohol.. the brainwashing to do so is just overpowering and ludicrous. I'm just trying to help share some non conventional knowledge but if you want to justify occasional drug use (again, alcohol is a drug) by means of dealing with your life, by all means, knock yourself out