You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

lsparrish comments on Social Necessity of Drinking - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: Raemon 13 February 2011 10:52PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (96)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: lsparrish 13 February 2011 11:59:56PM 3 points [-]

I avoid it for primarily moral reasons. A death from alcohol is a preventable one. But there are social costs to rubbing this in people's faces, so I normally just say "no thanks" and "I don't drink".