Tony, most of us have horror stories related to booze. A friend of mind drove his car in front of a train, at age 19. Killed instantly. My daughter was raped at a party, too drunk to know the difference. That same daughter came home one night to fetch us, as another kid had been left to die in a frozen snowbank. At 2 AM, my wife and I rushed over there to rescue her and take her home. Her mother got all mad at us for suggesting she was a poor parent, rather than thanking us for saving her daughter's life.
Nobody here is saying booze doesn't cause problems. But neither does prohibition, or preaching at others about it. If educated people continue to get drunk, that's on them. There are no easy solutions. Here, we have a nasty street drug problem with Fentanyl, and many youth overdose on the street. Some governments ban safe injection sites, and more people die. There is no easy solution to all of these things. Booze is safer then fentanyl, and marijuana is safer than booze. Sobriety is safer than any of them. But we have 7 billion folks on the planet, and the reality is you can only truly take care of one of them to the best of your ability.
