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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
I've talked about this with people 'in the know' -- people who work professionally in dealing with alcoholism, and/or have gone through rehab themselves. The issue isn't regularity, but dependence. One person told me that he was actually shocked to learn, back in his early rehab days, that people actually drink alcohol because they like the taste. He didn't even realize it tasted good, despite having drunk a few carloads of booze in his time. I think you're a big distance from that.
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Alcoholics have no respect for alcohol. If you like it, you cherish its effect, and you realize that if you do it all the time, or make a fool of yourself using it, people will put you in "the cult" and you won't be able to enjoy it anymore. You also won't enjoy it anymore because if you're never sober, there's no high from being drunk, and if there's no high from being drunk, you've effectively killed half the point of drinking. Why risk either?
It's the shift between stone sober and buzzed/loaded that makes drinking fun. The amusement's all in the alteration, at least for me.
