we don't even drink that much, compared to other countries.
we simply enjoy it, even if it doesn't make our life longer, like many other activities that are not even enjoyable.
In the end, it's less about health and living life to the fullest, and more about a modern hysteria based on fear of living (or fear of the thought of our eventual demise, which is the same).
I absolutely respect people who drink in a measured way to enrich their life, instead of trying to maximize their lifespan by some minuscule amount.
"everything in moderation including moderation" is a good adage to go by, imho.
I also don't need carbonara, pizza, gelato, the beach, snowboarding, my friends, my family to survive...
If you have religious reservations, please use your energy to fight off islamists who deal drugs, take bribes and marry with young children. Those sin more than people who indulge in a glass of wine or two.
It is like a robber - robbing $100 when you are sleeping and giving $50 when you visit them. Its the unawareness that you are being robbed of hundred makes him look like a good guy.
note: I do not mind your downvote.. but if you are downvoting - please schedule a bloodwork and take a look at your numbers.
animals enjoy alcohol too[1], it's not simply cultural and it's not a "west only" thing.
> all the while alcohol is imposing higher and higher tax on you.
assuming it's true, I very much prefer the alcohol tax than the 80 hours work week and only 7 days/year of holidays tax
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-alcoholics...
Don't worry they'll tell you.
There’s no reason you can’t have a joyful life without alcohol. The biggest joys in life don’t directly correlate with it.
But, a good glass of wine with a nice meal adds something beautiful. The dinner parties where everyone is 3 glasses in produce some of the most memorable, happy, joyful conversations of my life.
There’s a reason that throughout history people always mention “moderation” with respect to alcohol. In moderation, it adds a unique pleasure to being alive. You don’t need it, but it’s nice to have.
as the old adage says: In medio stat virtus
We don't think about you at all
In any case, those kind of "research" is for modern americans (and people taking their cues from anglosaxon culture) , who are already conditioned in such hysteria - which is funny in the country eating some of the worst quality food in the Western world, cooked the worst ways, in the worst portions, and with the worst mass production integredients. Or perhaps an overcorrection.
The average Italian, for example, should, and definitely, would just laught this off.