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“YOU ARE MAKING TOO MUCH OF THIS. THE ONLY REASON THESE GUYS DRINK IS TO GET AWAY FROM THE STRESS OF ALL THE CRISIS IN THEIR LIVES.”

This is the most telling comment of all! Since when is drinking an appropriate outlet for stress and crises in one’s life?

I wonder even one step further…. in today’s perhaps overly stringent, chumra and geder oriented society, perhaps all healthy outlets for stress have been removed, leaving only such things as drinking. A bit of sports for a young man might not be considered bitul torah if it keeps him away from alcoholism……