Social necessity? Think of all the drunk driving accidents fueled by alcohol. The king hit murders. The rapes, the suicides, the hospitalization, the addictions and psychoses, the cost to the health care system, the filthy vomit ridden streets, the dopey people wasting their youth and their lives, the children that grow up neglected, the fetuses that grow up poisoned and the activists that believed before me and you that there was hope in the face of the way things have been done for time immemorial. Are that a social necessity? No. We can do better than this.
[The connection between intoxication and sexual violence is well-established]
You are using “social necessity” in a different way from Raemon. Maybe that’s entirely deliberate, but it’s worth making explicit. It’s perfectly possible for something to be
a social necessity in the sense that anyone who doesn’t do it will suffer serious adverse social consequences, but
not a social necessity in the sense that our society would be better off if people did it much less or not at all.
Social necessity? Think of all the drunk driving accidents fueled by alcohol. The king hit murders. The rapes, the suicides, the hospitalization, the addictions and psychoses, the cost to the health care system, the filthy vomit ridden streets, the dopey people wasting their youth and their lives, the children that grow up neglected, the fetuses that grow up poisoned and the activists that believed before me and you that there was hope in the face of the way things have been done for time immemorial. Are that a social necessity? No. We can do better than this.
[The connection between intoxication and sexual violence is well-established]
-The Crimson
You are using “social necessity” in a different way from Raemon. Maybe that’s entirely deliberate, but it’s worth making explicit. It’s perfectly possible for something to be
a social necessity in the sense that anyone who doesn’t do it will suffer serious adverse social consequences, but
not a social necessity in the sense that our society would be better off if people did it much less or not at all.
That was beautiful.