• Mesophar@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Rather than downvoting, I’d like to ask why you think all forms of alcohol for consumption should be illegal

    • Lath@kbin.earth
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      8 months ago

      Probably because they’re basically poison that has to be filtered out and fucks up your liver and kidneys.

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        8 months ago

        Ok, but there are plenty of other items that that do that as well. It’s not a call out of “all drugs, including tobacco and alcohol”. It’s not a callout of microplastics. So there’s something specific to alcohol.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          So there’s something specific to alcohol.

          Being widespread. One bad set of laws in bad place in bad time (propination laws in eastern Europe in XVIII-XIX century) caused untold suffering and is keenly felt to this day, showing how easily hundreds of millions of people can be fucked up by poisonous commodity.

          I’m not for entirely banning alcohol, but only because it would be rather futile, but for restrictions in its selling and far going educational campaigns to finally get rid of it - and it is possible, even if not entirely, looking at the decline of consumption of other poison, tobacco.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 months ago

        If we forbid things just because they are mildly toxic, we would need to forbid almost everything. Including oxygen and water.

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          8 months ago

          Alcohol is pretty significantly toxic, especially compared to oxygen and water.

          I’m not in favour of banning it outright, but alcohol is more dangerous than some drugs that are illegal in many parts of the world, including the US.

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          8 months ago

          Oh yeah, a lot of people die because they drink too much water. Don’t forget how moch money is wasted because people break shit and beat each other up when theu are high on water.

          • Mesophar@lemm.ee
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            8 months ago

            Isn’t that more a social issue? Getting drunk and becoming violent isn’t a cause-effect. Someone that becomes abusive after drinking would be abusive without alcohol as well, that’s just a trigger for the behavior.

            This is closer to an actual answer, though. It’s easier to remove drinking than to change drinking culture. It just didn’t work the last time they tried to ban alcohol (in the USA), so if behavior around drinking is the issue that is trying to be solved there are probably other ways to go about it.