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I drink very little (small kids , living so I have to drive to get home), maybe 3-4 times a year. At every social gathering I have to defend not drinking at least once. I am so frickin tired of it that I started saying I get too violent when drinking or that I can't drink because I would hit my girlfriend. At least if they point it out in a rude way. That shuts them up.
I once had to help social services get a child from an alcoholic father. He was their 3rd child that evening and they were one of 20 teams. That is when I decided alcohol is poison and that anyone not drinking is commendable.
I understand the nice effects of alcohol. Indo consume it. I have started being the sober guy at every event where there are kids to show that you don't have to. Every person not drinking is a benefit to society.
I must however admit that I have a tendency to become a polemic ass-hat, and trying to persuade people to drink alcohol is a shitty thing to do.
At just 3-4 times a year though you could probably get away with the latter? Even if the same people present they'd probably just be briefly confused and forget or move on I'd have thought.
It is about alcohol politics which makes it about drinking.
> Every person not drinking is a benefit to society.
I think your personal experience is perfectly valid but that quite a jump. I would say moderate drinking is a net benefit to some societies in multiple different ways.
While everyone is different I personally find that I generally become less violent when I drink.
It's like commenting on an article about the fire at Notre Dame cathedral to say you converted to Judaism and are loving life and everyone else should too. Cool, happy for you stranger, but also don't really care and it's not relevant here.
I feel similarly when I see RISC-V mentioned (at least 4 times out of 5) for instance.