Why do young women in Britain drink themselves to oblivion?

Signal said:
No. Sometimes, it apparently takes thousands of citizens to die before the others realize they can impeach their government.
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OK. So to answer your earlier question, I guess the problem was prohibition (and the deaths that resulted) and the solution was to eliminate prohibition.
 
Signal said:
Your contempt for me is duly noted.

I also note that you might not be so sharp in analyzing moral and legal issues.
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"Contempt" is your personal projection, why are you attempting to put words in my mouth?

Thanks for the unrequested personal critique, it is as accurate and as well thought out as the balance of your argument. :bugeye:
 
Stoniphi said:
"Contempt" is your personal projection, why are you attempting to put words in my mouth?

Thanks for the unrequested personal critique, it is as accurate and as well thought out as the balance of your argument.
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You previous analysis of me

Stoniphi said:
Remember that interpersonal disconnect I mentioned to you before elsewhere? Most of us care about other people because we are able to bond with them, to relate to them and to care for them - even if we have not even met them. This is "empathy" and it leads us to care about what happens to them. "Altruism" motivates us to discuss wrongs done to others and to try to figure out ways to lesson or eliminate those.

When we find that the people we have elected to care for all of us (the government) have not only let us down in that, but have chosen to kill us, our brothers and sisters, our fellow citizens, without either good cause or due process under law (as explicitly detailed in our federal constitution), we get concerned that they may well do this again and some more. Thus our concern.

I recall that you do not quite understand this aspect of human behavior, but rest assured that most others amongst us here do. While you may not share these simple sentiments, rationally it behooves you to consider that many of the rest of us do and it is important to us. I hope that this helps you to understand why we are so concerned about our government killing us - if they did it a couple of times, how are we to assure that they will not do so again?
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warrants my reply to you fully.
 
On several previous occasions you have displayed a lack of ability to understand the connection that most of us have with our family members and friends. Here you display a lack of empathy, altruism and compassion for others in general. Since this is part of what you say on an ongoing basis I must conclude that you lack the ability to connect with others on an emotional level. Thus my suggestion that you try an intellectual work - around to better understand why we think differently than you.

You are either being deliberately disingenuous, seriously unable to understand the analysis or just trolling to create upset.

I chose to give you the benefit of the doubt and attempted to help you understand why others feel differently than you. That is not the same as "contempt". IMHO, you do not rate "contempt".
 
Stoniphi said:
On several previous occasions you have displayed a lack of ability to understand the connection that most of us have with our family members and friends. Here you display a lack of empathy, altruism and compassion for others in general. Since this is part of what you say on an ongoing basis I must conclude that you lack the ability to connect with others on an emotional level. Thus my suggestion that you try an intellectual work - around to better understand why we think differently than you.

You are either being deliberately disingenuous, seriously unable to understand the analysis or just trolling to create upset.

I chose to give you the benefit of the doubt and attempted to help you understand why others feel differently than you. That is not the same as "contempt". IMHO, you do not rate "contempt".
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Anything to makes you feel good about yourself, eh? :rolleyes:
 
I feel good about myself pretty much all of the time, thanks.

I credit this to a rational ethical system, healthy lifestyle, an entertaining career, a fine family and good friends.

Yes, I enjoy helping others less fortunate than I as well, peripherally. Any more questions?
 
Drinking themselves to oblivion, yes.
But they are also drinking themselves to death in some cases.
Alcohol is a particularly bad drug in that the dose which will cause you harm is not much greater than the amount which has an effect.

Half a bottle of wine will make you a little merry. Unless you are a neophyte, you will probably not be drunk, though you are certainly unfit to drive.
A mere bottle a day over a long period of time may kill you, if you are susceptible to cirrhosis.
Curiously, if you are not susceptible, you are unlikely to get that particular disease no matter how much you drink.
Many alcoholics, whose livers should rightly be pickled, don't have a trace of it on autopsy.
Cirrhosis is only one of the illnesses alcohol causes, in any case.

We could do with replacing alcohol with another drug that has a similar effect but damages the body less.
 
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The body follows the mind, wrong thinking makes for wrong living as right thinking makes for right living.
 
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