1. Drunkenness erodes away one’s ability to think clearly, make wise judgments, control one’s body, and one acts like a fool and an idiot:
A. If one was given a pill, and told that for the next 6 to 8 hours, this pill would erode away their ability to think clearly, make wise judgments, control their body, they will act like a fool and an idiot, but they would not have any fun, few if any would take that pill.
B. This shows that, for many young people, as well as others, when weighing out the positives and negatives of drunkenness, fun outweighs everything.
C. Do we really want to decide whether a behavior is right or wrong based on whether or not someone has fun while doing it?
2. Getting drunk is the primary social activity on the weekend on most college campuses:
A. This continues primarily through peer pressure.
B. As each new freshman class enters the university their first desire is to fit in socially.
C. If they didn’t know it before they got there, they quickly learn that partying is the quickest and easiest way to do so.
3. There is no medical evidence that getting drunk is good for you:
A. In fact, all the medical evidence suggests that a drink or two from time to time is fine, and maybe in some ways even beneficial, but getting drunk is harmful.
B. This shows that students are not getting drunk because they researched the issue and came to the conclusion that drunkenness was good for them.
C. It is purely peer pressure driven.
4. If the peer pressure were different, then the actions of the incoming freshmen would be different:
A. If incoming freshmen were met with peer pressure that said that all those who got drunk were low lifes and losers, and those who did so were shunned, very few would engage in the behavior.
B. This once again shows that the partying that goes on, on college campuses, is due to peer pressure and not because students weighed out the positives and negatives and came to the conclusion that it is good for them.
