Kaga...you have officially become my anti-alcohol hero. WOOT!I'm annoyed at how many respectable people still fall into the trap that the alcohol companies set up for them. Alcohol may be far less taboo than tobacco, but it's far more devastating; and if you ask me, claiming to be a casual drinker is no excuse. Tobacco is not a hallucinogen, does not cause inebriation, any of the inhibitions associatied with drunkenness, or any of the after-effects of drunkenness. Basically, you can't smoke a carton of cigarettes, jump into your car, and become a murderer within seconds or minutes. You won't rape anyone after a few cigarettes, you won't beat your wife or burn your house down. Like I said in the cigarette thread, I'm personally offended by alcohol-drinkers because they're saying that not only do they care what happens to them, but they don't care what happens to me or anyone else for that matter. Grabbing a mere bottle or mug or can doesn't matter. All alcohol-related deaths and crimes start with a single sip.
I can't say how much the party scene infuriates me. Alcohol is usually the drink of choice out of rebellion, out of people intentionally looking for the effects; looking for images and sensations, easy sex, etc. It's a single mass-mindedness of hundreds of millions of people around the world that causes nothing but corruption and the perpetuation of the twisted dogma of popular culture. Drinking IS most definitely socially acceptable, but it SHOULDN'T be. It's far worse than tobacco because of the fact that tobacco is an addiction and alcohol isn't; that means that the alcohol-drinker always has a choice in the matter, and it goes back to the matter of self-apathy and apathy for those around someone.
And yet nobody cares...if it can make you friends, if it can keep your friends (and what a sad definition of friends if they merely constitute those who you get hammered with to loud music and animalistic idiocy), it must be great! Alcoholic parents breed alcoholic children. European governments have so much moral abandon that they legalize drinking for people who aren't even adults. Our own government refuses to do anything...vice lobbies are the strongest there are in Washington and there's no doubt in my mind that half the senate drinks and three-quarters are on the payroll of Anheiser-Busch and Smirnoff. It's glorified everywhere, but how is that different from any time in the past? The Egyptians brewed their own malts thousands of years before Christ; it's a thread of man's social fabric as much as anything else is. It's only that people embrace it and promote it now.
Cybex Mewtwo said:In my opinion, I hate it. It's not cool and you would catch me dying in a corner rather than taking a sip. In fact....everyone in my family that is about 15 or higher has tasted alcohol at least once except for me. I plan to stop this while I have the chance.
Kaga...you have officially become my anti-alcohol hero. WOOT!
I'm annoyed at how many respectable people still fall into the trap that the alcohol companies set up for them. Alcohol may be far less taboo than tobacco, but it's far more devastating; and if you ask me, claiming to be a casual drinker is no excuse. Tobacco is not a hallucinogen, does not cause inebriation, any of the inhibitions associatied with drunkenness, or any of the after-effects of drunkenness. Basically, you can't smoke a carton of cigarettes, jump into your car, and become a murderer within seconds or minutes. You won't rape anyone after a few cigarettes, you won't beat your wife or burn your house down. Like I said in the cigarette thread, I'm personally offended by alcohol-drinkers because they're saying that not only do they care what happens to them, but they don't care what happens to me or anyone else for that matter. Grabbing a mere bottle or mug or can doesn't matter. All alcohol-related deaths and crimes start with a single sip.
I can't say how much the party scene infuriates me. Alcohol is usually the drink of choice out of rebellion, out of people intentionally looking for the effects; looking for images and sensations, easy sex, etc. It's a single mass-mindedness of hundreds of millions of people around the world that causes nothing but corruption and the perpetuation of the twisted dogma of popular culture. Drinking IS most definitely socially acceptable, but it SHOULDN'T be. It's far worse than tobacco because of the fact that tobacco is an addiction and alcohol isn't; that means that the alcohol-drinker always has a choice in the matter, and it goes back to the matter of self-apathy and apathy for those around someone.
And yet nobody cares...if it can make you friends, if it can keep your friends (and what a sad definition of friends if they merely constitute those who you get hammered with to loud music and animalistic idiocy), it must be great! Alcoholic parents breed alcoholic children. European governments have so much moral abandon that they legalize drinking for people who aren't even adults. Our own government refuses to do anything...vice lobbies are the strongest there are in Washington and there's no doubt in my mind that half the senate drinks and three-quarters are on the payroll of Anheiser-Busch and Smirnoff. It's glorified everywhere, but how is that different from any time in the past? The Egyptians brewed their own malts thousands of years before Christ; it's a thread of man's social fabric as much as anything else is. It's only that people embrace it and promote it now.
