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I don't know thats its getting worse actually.
And this is seperate from my normal antipathy towards adults trying to manage other adults' lives . . .
I think what happens is that we are looking for a reason why this behavior doesn't change.
When we look for a reason we start positing answers that may not be correct.
Often times things in real life are counter-intuitive.
The average person believes that if you educate people that drinking is basically bad, thats its illegal if you are underage, and that it can kill you . . . people should stop drinking.
So the statistic should bear that out right?
But we don't find that to be the case.
In fact, that expecation doesn't even match the models.
We know that in oppressive cultures the behaviors that are being suppresed become more atractive in direct proportion to their taboo.
At least in the cases of vices that bring pleasure.
I am digressing a bit . .. but education has worked, less people drive intoxicated and the percentages of people dying of alcohol poisoning aren't any greater than before.
As far as "drink until you puke," that has always been there, I am not sure its any greater now than before.
I think we are much more likely to take our friends to the hospital or panic now than ever before.
But you guys have to remember, out of all the people that drink, out the many times they do drink, very few die. Like count them on one hand.
There are very few over the coutner drugs that have that safety margin.
7700 people a year die from non-steroidal-anti-inflammatories . . . advil, tylenol etc.
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