science

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

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.

Let's fire up a peace pipe with tobacco then!

/j