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We aren't talking about the ABUSE of alcohol are we? You said beer is a waste of money and that is your (unpopular) opinion. I don't think anyone would disagree that, "the ABUSE of alcohol and the consequences that result" are bad. Are you too stupid to differentiate the two?People, like beer, are not intrinsically evil either. Problem is, you put certain things or certain temptations in certain people's hands, and a whole lot of innocent people suffer health/financial loss and/or their lives as a result. Everything from hurtful words and bar fights to rape and vehicular manslaughter.Cost benefit analysis. If the costs ($$$, 13 months probation, hopefully guilt for taking the lives of innocent victims, BAD press, etc.) do not at least equal or outweigh the benefits (getting a buzz, forgetting a ####ty day/week/month/year/life for a few hours, etc.), then people are gonna keep on keeping on. Case in point: You can get about 60-times more jail time for illegally copying CDs/DVDs than you can for driving drunk in Florida and killing a pedestrian crossing the street. Donte Stallworth might actually use the situation to turn his life around. However, is it because he truly feels remorse, or because of all the heavy press that cast him in a negative light? And if it is the latter, how many hundreds/thousands of individuals out there didn't get their dumb-### decision dragged out into the light of day for everyone to see?I lost my grandparents thanks to a drunk driver behind the wheel of a loaded dump truck. The problem was not the beer, the problem is the driver. I am sure he learned his lesson after 13 months of probation.Beer, like most things, is not intrinsically evil.Oh, I get the point of beer. Buried three good friends in high school 20 years ago and my 23-year old cousin last year thanks to the mighty buzz and others trying to escape their troubles for a few hours, then crawling behind the wheel. Wish I didn't get it...but I wasn't given a choice in the matter.You may not entirely "get" the point of beer.Beer is terrible waste of money...that causes 20-times more problems than it solves.
Alcohol isn't evil. The ABUSE of alcohol and the consequences that result thereof? You tell me.
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This....and the new Star Trek movie is a P.O.S.