I say find your own path. Insofar as is does not effect your duties, nor prevent you from attaining your goals, drink as much (or indeed, as little) as you choose.

Only remember, it is YOUR choice. The consequences, both good and bad, are yours to face.

Otherwise, go to it. And good luck.

Acculturation can also lead to the desire to numb one’s brain.

Think. Think logically. Is a numbed brain a better way to seek pleasure and enjoyment than having one’s faculties intact?

Observe your fellow humans.

The drinkers tend to congregate while the non-drinkers do the same.

Yes, there is intermingling but this is a brief message board post using generalities.

I found the non-drinkers to generally be more intelligent, glib, peaceful and more fun to be around.

Oh how I feel sorry for those that “just have to have a drink.”

What a high price to pay in so many ways, especially if addicted to the drug alcohol.

Alcohol cause so much misery within society and between people.

And how many innocents have been murdered by drunken drivers? How many maimed, crippled for life?

Logic and introspection honestly done can make some imbibers realize just how foolish gulping down the grog is if one seeks fun, companionship and pleasure.

Cast off the alcohol. Reveal the real you and fin the “real” in others.

Perhaps you will become a non-drinker and find life to me more pleasurable with a non-numbed brain and revel in the cost savings of alcohol avoidance.

Someone who is moderate, not abstinant, in these and all other things in life will be a better adjusted person to whatever life throws at them. Figure out the meaning of the article and stop arguing over things that have nothing to do with what is being said.

Could someone else have been chosen to personify temperance. Yes, but General Lee was chosen. Think about what he said and what he did and use temperance in your own life.