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Originally Posted by IndieVisible
I don't need your approval to drink or not. I don't doubt some people have a problem with drinking and it interferes with their lives, they should not drink. Just like some people have problem with gambling, they should not gamble. But to claim that drinking is bad for everyone is just not being honest or truthful.
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To say that it is "healthy" for one's health would be the dishonest and non-truthful aspect of things (again, heart disease is the #1 killer in the U.S. and according to Jason Vale, in the U.K), alcohol is consumed by 80% of the U.K's population but heart disease is the number #1 killer there, so.. do you think it's the alcohol that is making things healthier for people? Doctors and "experts" claim that "alcohol , esp red wine is good for your health". Again, how does it make any sense that "a little bit of poison is good for the heart" but "a lot of the poison isn't?" It's the same poison, isn't it? A poison is a poison regardless of the quantity. Does less of it make it good for you? lol.. ?
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I been drinking for over 40 years, no issues, no problems, because I know when to stop and that is where the problem can occur if you don't know when to stop, or if it is all you think about. That would be a problem, but the vast majority of the population world wide, that is not a issue. And that my friend is the truth. I deal in the truth not emotions.
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I wouldn't say that the majority of the population (the world's population.. how do you even take the census on this? lol), doesn't have a problem. In fact, it is known that alcohol *is* a drug.. so, any drug taken must have its usage increased. Are you saying for the last 40 years that you didn't have to increase your amount of alcoholic drinks? I am sure you have, that is not to say you have a full-blown problem (may be far from it) but to say that you have drank steadily 3 beers on the weekends for example (once a week, every Saturday, or every other Saturday) for 40 years would probably be misleading. I'll bet your boots you have increased your dosage from the time you first drank through the 40 years. That, my friend, is the nature of alcohol. Immunity is inevitable as time passes on.
It's great that you don't have any alcohol related issues but again, immunity overtime really shows that alcohol isn't something that you can physiologically control. Maybe psychologically you are better at controlling it, but I am sure you had to make concessions when needed (you HAD to cut back because you had work the next day or.. you were driving so you couldn't drink anymore OR you didn't drink at all). People are slaves to alcohol in some shape or form, regardless of a 'huge' drinking problem or not