Europe’s first-ever dedicated non-alcoholic craft beer festival has kicked off in Warsaw, placing Poland on the frontier of the fast-growing alcohol-free beer market while also spotlighting the nation’s wider shift towards mindful drinking.
Europe’s first-ever dedicated non-alcoholic craft beer festival has kicked off in Warsaw, placing Poland on the frontier of the fast-growing alcohol-free beer market while also spotlighting the nation’s wider shift towards mindful drinking.
I agree with most of the premise of your comment. I downvoted because of what you’re advocating for. Yes, alcohol is bad, and it’s dumb that it’s allowed and other drugs aren’t. I don’t think the solution is to try to get rid of alcohol though. It’s education, and providing choices. Yes, alcohol is bad, but people should be allowed to make bad choices (for themselves). We should be allowing more choice of drugs, rather than trying to force people to only have a small subset. You should get to choose what, if anything, goes into your body, not the government.
Okay, let’s put the perspective from another angle.
Should companies be allowed to make money out of an addictive, toxic drug that pushes people to be more violent, irresponsible and basically out of control, and at the same time much more vulnerable to rape?
Yes. I think advertising should be limited, or zero, but selling it should be allowed.
If we follow your logic, there’s so much more that shouldn’t be allowed. Sugar is incredibly addictive and generally bad for your health (at the quantities we have access to). Shouldn’t they not be allowed to sell it? What about cars?
We should be allowed to choose what level of risk we accept for ourselves. It shouldn’t be pushed on us, and it should also not affect others though.
Sugar doesn’t make you beat up, kill, or rape people. Sugar doesn’t actually kill you if you are addicted to it and stop too fast.
Cars are a tool with a lot of uses that would be really hard to replace, but yes, they should be much more restricted, it’s absurd that having a 1+ ton metal machine is so easy but carrying a pocket knife is seen as crazily dangerous.
Drinking alcohol has no use, very bad effects, is addictive in one of the worst ways (once again, I don’t know of many drugs that actually cause you to suddenly die if you stop too fast), causes horrible behaviours that endanger both the user and people around, funds a horrible industry of pieces of shit.
Even things like heroin or cocaine are not that unilaterally bad.
The only thing that even compares would be cigarettes, as they bring absolutely nothing good at all, and also can kill others, but the scale is very different and no one has ever been killed because of the influence of a cigarette, or raped because of being too high from it.
If we follow my logic, alcohol (and cigarettes) should not be allowed, and that’s it. Once it’s done you can wonder all you want about sugar, cars and heroin, have debates, etc. Nothing prevents anyone from banning alcohol and not following up with a campaign to ban everything that can be bad.
And one last point, if you ban alcohol, it becomes impossible to advertise it. If you ban advertising, I can guarantee that it will actually not be banned, because the laws are going to be circumvented by lobbies. That’s why there are lobbies that have been protecting cigarettes, but there’s no such thing as a lobby for heroin or so, a ban is much harder to avoid than a restriction.
Cool, neither does alcohol.
Or I must not have noticed last night when my beer threw me into a murderous rampage.
Well that’s a good amount of delusion over there.
Sure, let’s pretend that violence is never related to alcohol, and that there has never been a single case of someone using alcohol to rape someone else. Also it’s good for health and possibly makes you immortal.
Your individual experience doesn’t negate millenia of alcohol-induced violence. Stop the bullshit.
Alcohol reduces inhibitions, but it doesn’t “cause” violence.
People who become violent after drinking were already violent before their first sip.
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”
You’ll have to find better than that. Also people who get raped under the influence of alcohol weren’t going to be raped anyway, so your invalid argument isn’t enough even if you decide to believe it is valid.
People who got raped under the influence could have chosen to not drink. This isn’t saying “they asked for it.” This is saying that it doesn’t make sense to ban alcohol for a choice they made. They can and will still make that choice when it’s illegal. This argument is similar to the “don’t wear a skimpy outfit if you don’t want to get raped” argument, but with the additional step of banning skimpy outfits, because some people were raped.