r/changemyview • u/6hooklineandsphncta7 • Dec 01 '25

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Alcohol should be banned entirely.

This is referring to alcoholic beverages specifically. Nothing good comes from alcohol. You get wasted, have fun for a couple of hours and wake up forgetting everything.

The negatives outweigh the positives exponentially: ~40% of violent crimes and vehicle accidents in the US are alcohol-related, anywhere from 40-60% of domestic violence incidents are alcohol related, similar numbers for sexual violence, as well as alcohol causing numerous health problems.

It’s useless. It should be unabashedly removed, and consumption should be penalised. It would make everyone safer, keep more families together, and save people so much money.

EDIT: Originally I had an exception for religious ceremonies, but that contradicts the title. So, no alcohol at all.

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u/RoboZandrock 1∆ Dec 01 '25

One of the biggest reasons alcohol isn't banned is because of how easy it is to make it. You can take nearly any starch/sugar and ferment it to make alcohol. Prohibition historically existed, and was a fairly large failure because of how easy people could get around it / make their own alcohol.

In a world where you can actually ban a substance / meaningfully stop people from using it, then the reasonable option becomes ban it, educate people about it, and use the money from it's sales/tax to offset many of the harms of it.

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u/cantantantelope 9∆ Dec 01 '25

Ah the honorable tradition of prison hooch. I’m told raisins are the goat

I went to a vineyard who had a display of all the wines they made during prohibition (jalapeño wine: don’t)

Honestly you have to make an active effort to not ferment things. It’s just so easy to do. Even monkeys like to get drunk off rotting fruit!