not really big on fires actually. Indoors they make the air too smoky and just seem obsolete for the purpose, and I dont really enjoy being outside enough to want to do camping or such like that would necessitate an outdoor fire.
That being said, sugar is also harmful and I do have a sweet tooth- its not that the thing is harmful that bothers me per se so much as the degree and obviousness of the harm. Even if I was to enjoy being around a fire, the effect from campfire smoke is slow and non-obvious, it doesnt literally make you watch your friends act temporarily brain damaged while theyre in the area of effect, and its the anxiety over if friends taking it will cause themselves harm, and the existential horror of contemplating reducing one’s own mental functioning on purpose, that really emphasizes to me the toxicity alcohol has.
I bet you like relaxing next to a nice fire, even though we objectively know that wood smoke causes great harm to us.
not really big on fires actually. Indoors they make the air too smoky and just seem obsolete for the purpose, and I dont really enjoy being outside enough to want to do camping or such like that would necessitate an outdoor fire.
That being said, sugar is also harmful and I do have a sweet tooth- its not that the thing is harmful that bothers me per se so much as the degree and obviousness of the harm. Even if I was to enjoy being around a fire, the effect from campfire smoke is slow and non-obvious, it doesnt literally make you watch your friends act temporarily brain damaged while theyre in the area of effect, and its the anxiety over if friends taking it will cause themselves harm, and the existential horror of contemplating reducing one’s own mental functioning on purpose, that really emphasizes to me the toxicity alcohol has.