Have you ever heard or seen something that initially seemed to be totally fine, until you saw just how truly dangerous it actually is?

What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

  • YeahIgotskills2
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    23 hours ago

    Some of the best times of my life in my 20s were enabled through alcohol. I traveled the world using my own money, met countless interesting people in pubs and at festivals.

    As I sit, fully sober at my workstation in the office some 20 years later, I can think back to those times and can only smile when someone claims it has zero net benefits.

    • doug@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      keyword is “net” – you made friends, but the health risks involved may considerably offset that benefit.

      i’m sober and have made countless friends sans alcohol, many of them drink themselves; and if alcohol was a contingent on them being my friend, I’m not sure I’d want to be friends with them.