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Yes but if you look at, I dunno, the entire history of the human race, for some darn reason alcohol is strongly associated with socializing.

Maybe that's a coincidence though.

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The vast majority of people on this planet are teetotal. I guess they never have and never will socialize /s

Needing alcohol to socialize is not normal (though it has been normalized by some cultures). If you need alcohol to have fun, that's a sign of a serious problem that requires professional help.


>The vast majority of people on this planet are teetotal.

A citation would be nice. The WHO seems to suggest this is incorrect: https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption


Your link is a visualization of the data in the 2018 WHO global status report on alcohol and health, which is the same data I used. Quoting directly from that paper:

> Some 2.3 billion people are current drinkers. Alcohol is consumed by more than half of the population in only three WHO regions – the Americas, Europe and Western Pacific.

Globally, the majority of people are non-drinkers. It's not even close. The maps obviously tell a different story on a per-country basis. And if you live in an area with a super-majority of drinkers - yeah it's going to feel like everyone in the world drinks. But the global data says otherwise.

edit: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565639




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