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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by daseiner1 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:56PM (#39558380)
because those other things, on the whole, do not destroy people and their families in as acute a manner as alcohol and alcoholism do.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by tptacek on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:14PM (#39558473)
Then make that argument, and leave the cancer argument, which is easily knocked down, aside.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by jjtheblunt on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:48PM (#39558618)
What are you asserting?
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by tptacek on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:18AM (#39558780)
That the "cancer" argument about alcohol is special pleading.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by jjtheblunt on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:20AM (#39559082)
What would motivate false claims that alcohol correlates with cancer incidence?
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by tptacek on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:22AM (#39559097)
I didn't say the science is wrong, I said the argument is special pleading.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by jjtheblunt on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:19AM (#39561993)
What is special pleading? I’m a native speaker and think you are too but have no idea what you’re saying.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by tptacek on Friday March 01, 2024 @10:08AM (#39562451)
You can just Google the term.
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by ta2234234242 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:02PM (#39558406)
On the other hand, what exactly is freedom?
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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by galaxyLogic on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:11AM (#39558738)
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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