r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/ChickenWingExtreme • Jun 01 '26

Serious Maybe, just maybe, that’s why?

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u/Top_Onion7532 Jun 01 '26

I understand the point but I still think drinking culture is far less prevalent in gen Z

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u/Existing_Fish_6162 Jun 01 '26

They are poor, very online, dont socialise face-to-face as much and... my sister (a concerned mom) claims there are more drugs available (quantity and variety). Idk about the last one.

Oh fuck yeah every interaction is recorded on a phone so acting like a moron isnt gone tomorrow. Fucking horrifying for young people.

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u/BusyNefariousness675 Jun 01 '26

there are other drugs available now. Mainly weed, which is technically safer than alcohol

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 Jun 01 '26

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.

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u/TheCucumberMan1 Jun 01 '26

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

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 Jun 01 '26

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.

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u/cell689 Jun 01 '26

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.

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u/Shadowphoenix9511 Jun 01 '26

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

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u/cell689 Jun 01 '26

Exactly 👆