No, we red thumb him for doing it for a stupid reason. You are not going to kill yourself by having a beer or two, and chances are the person who OD'd did so on far more than alcohol.
That would take an incredible, RIDICULOUS lack of self-control on your part. We're talking unheard of, see-a-psychologist-right-now levels of low self-control. It's alcohol, not meth.
Recovery rate, yes. We're discussing risks of getting addicted to it in the first place. I fail to see how it's AA's fault that addictions are hard to break--that's why we call them addictions in the first place.
...You really think alcohol and meth have the same addiction rate?
And then you compared it to huffing butane, which is also neither?
I was honestly pretty tempted not to dignify that with a response. Meth is notoriously addicting with an incredibly high relapse rate. Yes, there are more alcoholics, only because there's far more booze out there than there is meth. And yes, if you think your self-control is so low that you can't even have a single SIP of alcohol without becoming horribly addicted to it, that would be a serious problem. I was saying that to make a point, not actually suggest he see a shrink, because he clearly admitted a moment later that he was indeed overstating it.
Yes, if you have a history of addictive behavior, obviously avoiding alcohol would be wise, but that's not what was being discussed here (you can't see the deleted comments.) What's being discussed was the ridiculous notion that a drink here and there would turn you into the guy from #4's story. A crazy internet story about a dude OD'ing on god knows what is not a reason to not drink. Educating yourself and weighing the pros-and-cons, as well as knowing your own personality, is a reason to not drink.
I was just talking to my uncle and my cousin a week or so ago about having an open casket funeral where everyone gets sharpies and draws the most obscene things they can think of on my corpse as if I had passed out at a party. I think that'd be fun.