sapphi_snake said:
Farmageddon said:
That's kind of a non-answer you know, I mean, what's the point of it? Or maybe I'm not thinking straight since I haven't drank for about 14 hours now.
But the trhead is asking what's the point of drinking. Some people are arguing there is no point, that it makes no sense. These people, not by coincidence, have just about no actual knowlodge on the subject. You tell people whatever the hell you want, but if you make no sense don't be surprised when people tell you you're not making sense :P
And he's got a point, how rational do you think your belief and your defence of it here have been?
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Well, drinking has been a practice common in society for millennia, and most people started drinking due to social pressure. Someone sees their parents drinking, so they decide to get some alcohol and share with their friends, and they all start drinking because adults do it, and they want to imitate adults, but at the same time they're not allowed to drink, so that adds to the thrill of it.
Alcohol eventually becomes an important part of their social life, and those who refuse to drink are ostracised by the group, thus being pressured to either drink or be excluded.
Alcohol also has significance in social rituals.
None of these reasons seem valid to start drinking (I don't care that people are bothered because I don't drink).
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Please cut it with the social pressure. People have fun drinking. They feel good.
Some people might start because of social pressure, w/e doesn't really mean much given just how much shit the average person does because of that. But the point is people keep drinking because it's good. And don't fool yourself, there's social pressure against drinking as well.
The situation of being excluded from a group because you don't drink is usually not quite like that, unless among assholes, in which case drinking is not the problem anyway. At college we have a group of people that drinks like crazy and there are a few non-drinkers that hang out with us when we're drinking. What you're describing is a very teenage-centric, media fuelled, sensacionalistic view.
None of the reasons you listed is valid, but that means nothing.
Let me list a few reasons for walking:
- Everyone does it. People who don't walk are treated as different and are ostracised.
- Since we're born we see our parents walk and we want to imitate them.
- Walking has a significant hole in social rituals.
None of these are good reasons. So I suppose you don't walk either?
Your list is simply bogus.
Here, a quick google images search, showing people being martirized by social pressure:
God, just looking at it is painful.
Btw, you wouldn't take half a beer for him/her? You really think half a beer would do you any bad? Or is it just by principle? Or lack of drive? :P
