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Tony V's avatar

a) people who can afford alcohol have min x threshold of income, income correlated with life outcomes

b) people who drink socially may have more friends, and friends do have relationship with longetivity

c) people who drink may be more open to experience, and more open to experience is correlated with IQ, IQ is correlated to better bodily integrity

d) type of people who drink alcohol are part of genetically endowed groups

d) above and people who drink like this understand the consequences of their life choices better, they have co-linearity with consumption patterns; but it has nothing to do with alcohol itself

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AffectiveAutism's avatar

I've definitely made the half joke "binge drinking is cardio for your liver" before and it's been surprisingly challenging for people to refute

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