Sure, and if we normalise not snorting things you don’t like the smell of people would do less cocaine!
Or maybe that’s not how substance abuse works. As someone in treatment for addiction who forced my DOC into me to the point of serious pain… You’re being ridiculous. Alcohol is a drug. People who drink to excess are not, as a rule, concerned with how their drinks taste. If someone is drinking A Lot, they don’t give half a shit how it tastes. “Acquired taste” isn’t the problem here. Someone realising after multiple tastings that actually blue cheese tastes good has less than nothing to do with people drinking to excess.
i’m talking about before people have the opportunity to become addicted. if you think your first beer tastes horrible and you don’t have a culture of forcing yourself to like things to fit in and people taking “nah i didn’t like that” as an answer and not pressing you about it then you don’t have 17 year olds drinking until they like it and then crashing a car.
yeah once somebody’s already an alcoholic it doesn’t matter and they’ll drink the worst cheapest swill but how many people could’ve just abided their first impression and never developed a problem?
Then blame peer pressure, not the concept of an acquired taste. Learning to enjoy something you didn’t like the first time is not the problem here.
or we could normalize not continuing to consume things you don’t like, and then a whole lot of people would drink a lot less
Sure, and if we normalise not snorting things you don’t like the smell of people would do less cocaine!
Or maybe that’s not how substance abuse works. As someone in treatment for addiction who forced my DOC into me to the point of serious pain… You’re being ridiculous. Alcohol is a drug. People who drink to excess are not, as a rule, concerned with how their drinks taste. If someone is drinking A Lot, they don’t give half a shit how it tastes. “Acquired taste” isn’t the problem here. Someone realising after multiple tastings that actually blue cheese tastes good has less than nothing to do with people drinking to excess.
i’m talking about before people have the opportunity to become addicted. if you think your first beer tastes horrible and you don’t have a culture of forcing yourself to like things to fit in and people taking “nah i didn’t like that” as an answer and not pressing you about it then you don’t have 17 year olds drinking until they like it and then crashing a car.
yeah once somebody’s already an alcoholic it doesn’t matter and they’ll drink the worst cheapest swill but how many people could’ve just abided their first impression and never developed a problem?