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That's not what's scary to me. What's scary is the number of people in my country's parliment who drink like fish and, more than that, the number of them who drink at lunch. Some of these studies plainly state that behavioral and decision making side effects have been observed. I hate to sound alarmist, but my country is being run by people with compromised cognitive ability and, I assume, personality.

I wonder if there's a threshold at which the toxicity starts or if it's just an inherent quality of alcohol just as the high from huffing paint is an integral part of the brain damage that it causes.

Pretending it's not a drug is certainly an interesting perspective considering that it's one of the harder drugs out there.




I understand your concern, but I don't see how that's any different than any other country for the last few thousand years.

If anything, people probably drink less these days.


England, I'm guessing? Parliament even have their own pub! The joke is that at floor level, there are little arrows on the wall pointing to the door so that drunk MPs can find their way out.




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