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Is having a drink or two a week really measurably self-destructive? How does it measure compared to sitting at a desk all day, or putting mayo in your sandwiches?


Sedentary lifestyle is a known carcinogen in the state of California. /s

edit: for the non-Californians, this is a reference to proposition 65. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/07/opinion-californias-j...


Oh, all of us non-Californians know as well. The warning label is put on products nationally - probably not worth manufacturing a CA variant of product packaging in most cases.


The fact that people are actively destroying themselves via multiple vectors does not mean that each vector isn't existential.


But is it the sort of risk that even registers on the meter?

Everything in moderation including moderation, as the saying goes.




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