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Seriously? There's a big difference between tea and ritalin.

I'm curious if you could reason this out for me. If I drink a few hundred litres of tea a day to keep me alert then why is that different to me taking ritalin? I mean its obviously impractical and probably quite bad for me and I should absolutely take ritalin instead. But I'd love to know why the desire the stay alert to the extent that I need to seek drugs to help with that because I can't get enough sleep is any less alarming if my drug of choice is tea (ie. Caffeine) rather than ritalin?

Because caffeine consumption is usually a given in the general population, and significantly weaker than more specifically engineered and harder to acquire prescription drugs. Three pots of coffee in an hour is a poor equivalent to taking ritalin.

If I considered walking across the room as a form of workout, I could pretty confidently say that 99.99% of Americans exercise once a day. But that wouldn't yield me much in the way of insight.

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