Just bought box wine the other day cuz I knew I had to have a super uncomfortable conversation that could not be avoided and I needed to be anaesthetized for it

It worked and I know in retrospect I really needed it to be that way

Edit/Update: person I had convo with just texted me and apologized for combativeness and I mutually apologized for not dealing with it sooner and we’re along and on to solution mode. The system works, please dont drink if you dont have too but dont forbid yourself from using a tool to improve your situation and try to always be honest. The less you lie or hide, the less influence you will have to unnecessarily drink

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    I think they’re just pointing out that using alcohol as coping mechanism can easily cause alcoholism, and therefore this post is really dangerous advice for some people.

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      Rigth - and downvotes fixes it? This is lunacy and detrimental to discussion/sharing. You can spot «danger for someone» just about anywhere you look.

      Now the question was if you sometimes drink strategically. Drinking all the time or every day isn’t drinking strategically.

      Try being human sometimes, and not trying to outdo each other being «perfect». Unless you’re 14 and trying to fit in…

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        You can abuse alcohol to negative effect without drinking every day. Binge drinking and drinking to dull your emotions are other forms of alcohol abuse beyond just the classic portrayal of a “drinks all day or he gets the shakes” alcoholic. Maybe OP is doing this very occasionally and it’s not a problem for them. But if you’re using alcohol to as a coping mechanism with any sort of frequency, it’s probably not a healthy situation.

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        Rigth - and downvotes fixes it? This is lunacy and detrimental to discussion/sharing.

        Thank you. But anecdotally, it seems there are few of us who think this. I still don’t understand why.

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            Exactly my point. The virtual equivalent of taping someone’s mouth shut because you happen not to agree with what they say.

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                Freedom of speech as an absolute

                Of course it’s not absolute, where did I say otherwise? Straw man.

                paradox of tolerance

                This just feels like a fancy reference deployed to back up intolerance.

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                I’ll be honest, a quick review of this thread did not clearly reveal who was downvoting who for what. My position, and this other person’s, is that downvoting opinions is bad manners and toxic to healthy discussion. If there was genuinely harmful advice there, then OK, downvote away.

                (Obviously these days the word “harmful” is thrown around liberally so this probably just puts us back to square one.)