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?

  • doug@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Alcohol

    iirc it’s a confirmed, 100% proven carcinogen and is a poison with zero net benefits.

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      9 hours ago

      No net benefits today.

      Various alcoholic drinks of the past were a benefit in helping to provide hydration and calories in an unclean environment.

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      21 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.

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        2 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.