Phosphor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >so what is the downside of alcohol? I don't think there are any downsides if you have the character to drink it in moderation, and if you don't mind loosing your braincells at a greater rate than usual, and if you don't mind lowering your mental clarity. I don't think I have the willpower to drink alcoholic beverages in moderation. I'm not going to take any risks. My father became addicted. Futher, I don't want to increase the loss of my brainscells and I want to be as lucid as possible. (I just used, for fun, the logical structure of your proposition in the first message on this thread, to justify refined sugar, which I believe is poison. I guess that wasn't funny. Sorry.)