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You can spend your entire life minimizing risk, maximizing safety, and avoiding discomfort, or you can actually live. Either way you’re going to end up dead. M
by utdoctor 3mo ago
You can spend your entire life minimizing risk, maximizing safety, and avoiding discomfort, or you can actually live. Either way you’re going to end up dead.
Moderation > abstinence in most things.
- stringfood 3mo agoI like how you implied not drinking alcohol implies not living a full life... that is so false
- franciscojs 3mo agoI wonder what's the impact of abstinence in terms of not participating in social events that generate around alcohol consumption. Some cultures rely heavily on drinks for social bonding and such.
- bluefirebrand 3mo agoIn my experience, a social life that requires drinks for social lubricant goes away very quickly if you aren't drinking. It's an extremely fine veneer of socialization, not real connections
- projektfu 3mo agoI know what the impact of drinking is on socializing before 10 AM. It just doesn't happen very often at all. After a few drinks, the value of socialization drops considerably and a lot of it is just hanging around because you don't want to go home and feel the effects of the alcohol.
- sublinear 3mo agoI'm not an anthropologist, so I won't handle this topic with gloves. Cultures are a shared ignorance. They have to be this way, almost by definition, else they wouldn't have any appeal. The way we discuss health today is different from even 50 years ago. The debate about alcohol isn't new, but things like fitness trackers and smartwatches are. People can now prove it to themselves in real time that "feeling like shit" is not "all in their head", and that it's not a matter of "just drink water" or "eat something". On the flip side, this cultural step forward comes with a step back. There's a lot of money to be made with this health anxiety.
- bluefirebrand 3mo agoWhy is abstinence "not living" but drinking is? I'm not really anti drug or alcohol, but I am absolutely anti "substance use is the only way to truly live", even in moderation I spent my twenties drinking moderately, and I barely drink at all in my 30s. I don't miss it even a bit and I'm way more alive now than I was then.
- arealaccount 3mo agoI guess if you enjoy drinking, and would miss it in its absence, then you can call it "not living"
- bluefirebrand 3mo agoI dunno, that seems simplistic imo I was diagnosed as celiac only a year ago. Many of my favorite meals and desserts contain gluten because I didn't know I was celiac. I can't have those things anymore. I do miss them, but I don't think I'm "not living" now that I have to avoid them I'm just living differently and much more carefully about what I eat
- stringfood 3mo agoYou can spend your life avoiding grain, sugar, and alcohol... or you can actually live a real life /s
- sublinear 3mo agoWhether you drink is probably irrelevant to why you feel more alive. Life experience opens up a ton of opportunities.
- stringfood 3mo agoas a recovering alcoholic I am so tired of people saying that abstinence is not living. Like... you can't enjoy life sober? And what am I suppose to do with a statement like that? Seems very unaware thing to shout into the ether (my uncle invented the ethernet)
- seethishat 3mo agoThis is true. Everything is in a constant state of decline (including our health). Enjoy it while you can.
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- mjklin 3mo agohttps://theonion.com/world-death-rate-holding-steady-at-100-percent-1819564171/ https://theonion.com/world-death-rate-holding-steady-at-100-...