Monday, March 4, 2013

Should the good effects of alcohol be promoted?

If there are good effects of alcohol (like the effect that
small amounts of wine are supposed to have on heart health) that can be proven true,
they absolutely should be publicized.  Now, this is not something that the government
should be doing.  The government should not be promoting alcohol, but if there are
true benefits to using alcohol, it would be dishonest and
unethical to ban scholars or even the alcohol industry from publicizing them.  The truth
in such matters should never be banned.


So, I would say
that the good effects of alcohol should be promoted but that it is up to private groups
and not up to the government to promote alcohol.  It would also be wrong for the
government to suppress the truth if there are real benefits (as yet, it is not 100%
clear that there are) to drinking alcohol.

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