Saturday, May 23, 2015

Why alcohol should be banned

This is a very controversial topic. Should alcohol be banned? Why do some people want it to be banned and why do some people don't want it to be banned? Does it have any good or bad effects?

Asking some alcohol drinkers, I got the answer that they don't drink alcohol for any particular reason, it is only for fun, and it helps them forgetting frustrations and brings happiness. So these are the good sides of alcohol in their life.

Let's see the bad effects of alcohol in everyday life. Firstly, it gives people temporary false happiness and it controls people consuming them in alcoholic imaginary world. Alcohol should be banned because it is not something that
is basic right of people. It is self destructive drink. One may say, it is upon the person what chooses. If we go by this
logic, then suicide should be legal as it is only upon the person. But why suicide is illegal? Alcohol and suicide both are destructive. In fact,  alcohol is much more dangerous than suicide. If a person commits suicide, then it is only him who's going to be dead, here for his suicide, nobody else is going to be influenced. But a person who drinks alcohol causes problems for himself for sure but also for society. Each year 11000 people are killed only from USA from alcohol related car accidents. 2.5 million people die every year worldwide due to alcoholic diseases. Inebriated can kill someone very easily, they can damage people's property and assault sexually. Alcohol is one of the biggest reasons for sexual violence or harassment. Rape and murder are done under the influence of alcohol. There is no benefit of alcohol, it is not useful at all. Some say alcohol helps them having good time. But do they need to be drunk to have good time? For having their good time,  they create serious problems for society and it's people. The alcohol drinkers are facing problems like drunk driving accidents, liver failure. Long term of drinking leads them to cancer, and then death. Alcohol alters the mind of a person which can cause such individual to take actions which they would not take otherwise. Psychological studies have shown that a large number of children coming from alcohol abuse families face problems like loneliness, guilt, fear of abandonment, feeling of helplessness. In extreme, it can cause hallucinations, confusion, seizure, fever, agitation and anxiety. Alcohol causes problems in your relationship. A big number of divorce is only for alcohol.

So,  alcohol does cause problems for the people who are around you. It is government's responsibility to protect the citizens from bad things,  this is why alcohol should be banned. If alcohol isn't forbidden, then suicide shouldn't be illegal either.

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