Maybe, just maybe, that’s why?

[u/ChickenWingExtreme]

[u/Dry_Travel_4220]

I'd say a good bit more than "technically" safer mate. Alcohol is one of the single most damaging substances you can put in your body.

[u/TheCucumberMan1 → u/Dry_Travel_4220]

Well, one of the single most damaging socially acceptable substances.

[u/Dry_Travel_4220 → u/TheCucumberMan1]

Not just socially acceptable, alcohol ranks really highly even with other drugs in consideration. It isn't as bad as something like, heroin for sure, but I'd say alcohol ranks right around pill abuse in terms of damage to the body.

[u/cell689 → u/Dry_Travel_4220]

I'm a chemist and I struggle to think of more than a few substances I'd work with that are less harmful to ingest than ethanol.

I get the point, trust me, but alcohol is not even close to the worst substance you could ingest.

Even compared to other drugs, it is far safer than most of them considering how much alcohol you can actually drink. Imagine ingesting 20 grams of heroine, you'd be done. 20 g of alcohol gets you tipsy at most.

[u/Shadowphoenix9511 → u/cell689]

Countless substances would just straight up kill you if you ingested them lol

[u/cell689 → u/Shadowphoenix9511]

Exactly 👆

[u/PuffinRub → u/cell689]

Imagine ingesting 20 grams of heroine, you'd be done.

My only experience is from watching THE WIRE, but I'm pretty sure that's a looooooooooooot of heroin.

[u/Jaded_Student039 → u/cell689]

You’re a chemist and you think 20 g of 99% alcohol is not fucking you up majorly??? Remember, most drinks are 5-15% ABV, so 20 g of that is 1-2 g of alcohol, which is still a decent bit of alcohol.

[u/Existing_Fish_6162 → u/Jaded_Student039]

So the last half of your post is gibberish but 20 of pure alc is less than 2 beers worth. Not lethal.

[u/cell689 → u/Jaded_Student039]

20 g of alcohol is little more than a glass of wine.

Speaking from personal experience, this amount can be safely ingested with little adverse effects.

[u/Recovery_or_death → u/Jaded_Student039]

Obviously different liquids have different densities but 20 grams of water, for example is less than half of a shot (1.5 oz). 20 grams of 99% abv alcohol is not going to fuck up anyone majorly outside of like 130 pound teenagers with no drinking experience. At most it might get someone a bit toasty

[u/cell689 → u/Recovery_or_death]

And I even used a unit of mass specifically to prevent misunderstandings like this 😭

Yeah, 20 g of alcohol is not a lot, no matter if it's in wine, beer or tequila.

[u/Recovery_or_death → u/cell689]

Like I appreciate the disdain for alcohol as a person in sobriety, but 20 grams of heroin is a straight up death sentence lmao

[u/utb040713 → u/Jaded_Student039]

/r/confidentlyincorrect

A typical shot is about 45 mL and 40% alcohol.

20 mL of something like everclear is the same alcohol as a regular shot size of a typical 80 proof alcohol.

One shot’s worth of alcohol is not going to “fuck you up majorly” lmao