• NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I hate that alcohol, such an obvious health detriment, is so ingrained in culture that people don’t even question it… Your link makes it worse!

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      14 minutes ago

      I hate that existence, such an obvious health detriment, is so ingrained in culture that people don’t even question it…

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      8 hours ago

      Like the link points out, we were drinking before we had written language.

      It’s a matter of dealing with life on life’s terms. The reality is that people like drinking. Sometimes people drink too much, and a few unlucky folks can’t drink anything without risking death.

      I ocne read a story about a Vietnam era war correspondent. He was a pacifist before going to cover combat and seeing combat up close made him hate war even more.

      At one point a publisher asks him to contribute an article that ‘deglamorizes war.’

      He wrote back that deglamorizing war would be as easy as deglamorizing sex.