Much as I love you guys some of you are killing me. I mean like slowly driving a stake through my heart . . . a very blunt stake and slow hammer strokes . . .
Drinking, partying, etc. are value neutral activities.
This means, if someone wants to make this into a negative issue they have to do exactly that: Create/spin a negative slant on the issue.
The operative word being SPIN.
Alcohol is a MORAL issue to most people against drinking. And most of the people I have met are careful to say that they aren't against drinking, just irresponsible drinking, however, they usually define irresponsible drinking as anytime that drinking impairs you. I have actually stood there and heard people shake their heads with disgust and say "Can you believe they drank to feel it! Or get drunk?"
Jesus Wept.
Earth to your planet: Alcohol does not taste good people drink it to feel it. Why else deal with the calories and the negative physiological effects?
If you have a personal thing against drinking alcohol, which is usually a matter of upbringing or a factor of control, you need to deal with it and not try to make others suffer for it.
About posting negative articles. It's a fine idea, shit happens, why hide from it? I understand the concerns of people not wanting to scare potential Rushes away, but posting these articles actually gives us the ability to place them in perspective and perhaps defuse rumors.
If alcohol is a moral issue to many people, for us as Greeks it must be a liability issue, and what we really need to do is sharpen our skills at avoiding or transferring liability. Risk Management is ABOUT avoiding and transferring liability. And maybe it would be more honest to teach it that way. The point of a third party vendor is to transfer liability to someone else for serving alcohol. If a tour group runs a ski trip, they have liability you don't. The first commandment of Risk Management, if something goes wrong, and it eventually will, you want someone else stuck with the bill and the responsibility.
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