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Why I Don't Drink

57 点作者 nealogrady大约 11 年前

18 条评论

mjn大约 11 年前
This feels like a very &quot;American&quot; article [1], in the way it frames the discussion. The intro suggests the author has a policy of not drinking <i>at all</i> (or only every few months), but most of the bullet points only apply to why you shouldn&#x27;t binge-drink. I did not find anything in this article that applied to normal drinking. If you drink a glass of wine with lunch, and one or two with dinner, as a typical southern European, you should not have a hangover or other such issues, unless you have a relatively rare (for those of European descent, at least) sensitivity to alcohol.<p>I&#x27;m slightly tempted to write a follow-up article with, &quot;why I don&#x27;t participate in bro culture&quot;, based on this article&#x27;s pervasive reference to clubs, &quot;certain intoxicants&quot;, and other such questionable things the author appears to indulge in, but which seem stupid and harmful to me.<p>[1] To be fair, the U.S. may have gotten its drunkards-vs-teetotallers attitude in part from Europe. Sweden in particular, and the UK some centuries earlier, used to have a very similar divide.
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sheetjs大约 11 年前
&gt; Almost everyone will at some point ask me why I don&#x27;t drink, which is fair considering it&#x27;s engrained into human society.<p>There should be no need to explain why you don&#x27;t drink. Period. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with not drinking and there&#x27;s nothing weird about not drinking. If people are asking with any sort of condescension, you are probably spending time with the wrong people.
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Duhck大约 11 年前
I empathize with this article. I rarely drink, I get drunk about a half a dozen times a year, and shifting my social life away from bars and restaurants has enabled me to afford a lifestyle I otherwise couldn&#x27;t have.<p>I put every penny I saved from my former bar oriented social life into a savings account, and in two years I put over $65k away, which turned into seed money for my own startup.<p>This is a point of pride for me, and overall has enriched my life in ways social drinking never could have.<p>I&#x27;ve grown distant from certain friends because of it, and I get questions nearly everytime I do go out and refuse a drink. These things are not important to me, and those people less so.<p>Moral of the story is, people should live their lives how they see fit, and that is for both drinkers and non drinkers alike.
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hawkharris大约 11 年前
Not to mention that alcohol is a major carcinogen in the United States. From the National Cancer Institute: &quot;Based on data from 2009, an estimated 3.5 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States were alcohol related.&quot; [0]<p>[0] <a href="http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/alcohol" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;cancertopics&#x2F;factsheet&#x2F;Risk&#x2F;alcohol</a>
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ethnt大约 11 年前
This hits the nail on the head for me. I&#x27;m a college student in the US right now, and drinking is a big part of the &quot;college experience&quot;. I don&#x27;t like drinking — that&#x27;s not to say I don&#x27;t every once in a while (think once every two months), I just don&#x27;t really enjoy it like other people do. It makes me uncomfortable that I&#x27;d be around other people I potentially don&#x27;t know without all my faculties.<p>I think it&#x27;s just a control thing for me — I don&#x27;t want to lose control of myself and do stupid things. Even normally, I&#x27;m super self-aware, and that&#x27;d just get worse with alcohol.
joshlegs大约 11 年前
I&#x27;m really with the author here. I don&#x27;t drink much, and people usually ask me why when I&#x27;m out. I just don&#x27;t find it all that enjoyable most of the time, to be honest.<p>also, there&#x27;s this: &gt;There is a longer list of things I&#x27;d rather spend $100 on<p>I just want to take a moment to suggest this as an alternative. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Parker-Sonnet-Original-Matte-Fountain/dp/B001G6YPLW" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Parker-Sonnet-Original-Matte-Fountain&#x2F;...</a>
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m0nastic大约 11 年前
I don&#x27;t drink very often anymore (maybe a few times a year). I&#x27;ve never liked the taste of most alcohol, so when I drink, it&#x27;s generally just a lot of shots to get it down easiest. When I went out more, I drank more (the incredible effort I have to maintain to be around people is lessened if I&#x27;m drinking). As I got older, it seemed easier to just stop leaving my apartment, and I was never a fan of drinking at home.<p>I suppose somewhere in the back of my head I always worried about becoming an alcoholic (coming from a long line of stinking drunks), but thankfully, I don&#x27;t really have any addiction issues.<p>I&#x27;ll admit that it&#x27;s probably a bad thing that so much of our culture is alcohol-centric, but I don&#x27;t begrudge that other people just like drinking.
cyphunk大约 11 年前
<p><pre><code> I enjoy certain intoxicants. I enjoy hanging around people that are intoxicated </code></pre> Look, it&#x27;s wonderful to abstain from some things in life. If&#x2F;when I have a child I will tell them this &quot;pick and abstain from one addiction or enjoyment that see most people exploring. when you are older you will start to doubt your abilities and look for choices you made to blame it on. if you abstain from that one thing you can always just say &#x27;meh, at least i dont do ___&#x27;&quot;.<p>That said, one can give plenty of arguments for why alcohol adds something to your life. Mainly all of the reasons you gave against it were completely self-centred and if you acknowledge that the quality of your life is most greatly impacted by your interaction with others... well, alcohol can bring value to that.<p>As a side note, if you are going to parties and filling up on &quot;other intoxicants&quot; that make you thirst more for water than alcohol, you&#x27;re not really doing yourself any favors.
te_chris大约 11 年前
I&#x27;m wallowing in self pity after a great night last night. New Zealand is like Oz and the UK in that it has a huge, ugly, binge drinking culture. I was caught up in it for a while but eventually I had to perform a bit of self-reflection, realise that I was a bit of a dick when I lost control and really focus on what I wanted. Turns out I enjoy drinking with friends, but I hate being wasted and out of control. I also really enjoy the taste and variety of the conduits which we use to numb ourselves.<p>Why am I posting this? Because it sounds like OP and myself (and likely many, many others) have gone through a similar experience of calibrating ourselves to alcohol, but found ourselves coping with the downsides in different, equally-valid ways.
humancontact大约 11 年前
I just don&#x27;t like the taste of alcoholic beverages, and therefore I don&#x27;t drink them.
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faddotio大约 11 年前
I agree with most of his points, and that&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t drink to excess. But I&#x27;m happy to have a glass of red wine with a steak or a nice stinky piece of cheese, and I don&#x27;t suffer any of the drawbacks he states. I don&#x27;t feel an urge to continue drinking either, because yeah, being drunk and hungover later sucks!<p>Drinking (or doing anything) responsibly doesn&#x27;t just mean &quot;find a DD and then get trashed&quot;, it can also mean &quot;find satiation with a little bit of something nice.&quot;
Osiris大约 11 年前
I&#x27;ve never had a drink for personal and religious reasons. From an outside perspective, those are all the same kinds of reasons I&#x27;d have.<p>Primarily, it&#x27;s shocking to me how much people spend on alcohol. I was out with some co-workers that were spending $10 per shot. That was a bit of shock for me.
swalsh大约 11 年前
Everyone&#x27;s got their vice. Some people have many. Alcohol just isn&#x27;t yours. I personally love beer. I really enjoy it... but i have nothing against anyone for making the decision not to drink it.
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brianobush大约 11 年前
Why I don&#x27;t do X? Seriously, you can do what you want and i am sure you have your reasons. Why must we feel compelled to announce our choices?
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eterps大约 11 年前
What are good recommendations for non-alcoholic drinks? I don&#x27;t like most alternatives because they are too sweet.
bra-ket大约 11 年前
this article should have been posted last night
whoismua大约 11 年前
First I respect his decision. For some it can addictive and if you feel like you can&#x27;t control yourself it&#x27;s best to avoid. However, he uses &quot;getting drunk&quot; and &quot;drinking&quot; interchangeably, there&#x27;s a lot between those two points.<p>A drink a day, sometimes two, are not harmful. They will not really intoxicate you. Everyone else is drinking so any dumbing down is valid for anyone else. A drink are two is not unhealthy, maybe it&#x27;s even healthy.
shaunxcode大约 11 年前
The x in my name is more than just a delimiter!
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