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Since When Is Being Uninhibited A Disease?

November 20, 2013 By Jay Brooks

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The prohibitionist propaganda machine that is Alcohol Justice is out in full swing today. They just sent out a tweet to the faithful, telling them. “Raising alcohol taxes reduces harm…it’s a fact.” We obviously have a different definition of what constitutes a “fact.” I tend to think of a fact as something not open to debate, not a position that everyone doesn’t agree with, or for which there is no counter-argument.

But the tweet also included the graphic below, which is a bottle showing all of the bullshit “harms” that AJ insists are caused by alcohol. I won’t get into each of them, or how almost all of them are potential things that can happen to a person who drinks immoderately, or can happen to any person for as many other reasons as there are people. They aren’t caused by the drink any more than a hamburger causes a heart attack. They may be a contributing factor for some people, but their continuing insistence that they are directly caused by any amount of alcohol goes a long way toward proving how out of touch with reality they are and just how fanatical and intrenched they’ve become in more recent years. Most people you and I know have been enjoying alcohol our entire lives without contracting any of these diseases or devolving to a life of crime. In fact, the moderate consumption of alcohol might actually make one healthier, a “fact” that Alcohol Justice now refuses to acknowledge, even as the FDA’s latest dietary recommendations make clear.

bottle-harms-bs

But look at the biggest one on the bottle, just below “liver disease.” Disinhibition? WTF? Since when is loosening up and not being such a tight-ass a disease that not only rivals brain damage, but given its prominent position on the bottle and the size of the type, appears to be one of the worst problems they associate with drinking. How many mental issues and how much stress is relieved by the occasional drink after work or with dinner, bringing about a “loss or reduction of an inhibition,” which is the Merriam-Webster definition of disinhibition. How is letting one’s hair down, so to speak, something to be feared and avoided? Given the company it’s keeping on their bottle of harms, it certainly seems clear that they regard it as a disease. I continue to marvel at the new and inventive ways that prohibitionists can try to pass judgement and make those of us actually “living” our lives feel guilty for enjoying ourselves.

Filed Under: Editorial, Just For Fun, Politics & Law, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Anti-Alcohol, Prohibitionists, Propaganda, Words



Comments

  1. beerman49 says

    November 21, 2013 at 12:25 pm

    Thanks for the laugh of the day!!!

  2. tim says

    November 21, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    Disinhibition…wow. Right up there with liver disease!

  3. Alec Moss says

    November 21, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    I’m guessing that those people who are worried about disinhibition are the very ones who exhibit that same behavior in private and are concerned about those of freer minds who exhibit that behavior in public. They’re just too conservative to be able to enjoy themselves in a public setting, so don’t think anyone should.

    Alec

  4. BrewerAdam says

    November 22, 2013 at 6:14 am

    “Foetal alcohol syndrome”… Spell check anyone?

    • Jack says

      November 30, 2013 at 5:07 pm

      That is how it’s spelled. US English usually omits letters in a lot of latin based terms such as ‘foetus’, or ‘orthopaedics’.

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