genZ is drinking less because they are up to worse things
alcohol abuse is depressive but if look at how much zoomers struggle with anxiety, i think they could really use a drink
>>172491seen it 1 million times
ideally occupy your entire life with productive fun things but thats not easy so i think the real meta is to only indulge in mildly sinful things so you dont ruin your life with majorly sinful things
if you have 99 willpower then you can abstain from all sin but …
modernity does not see the forest for the trees and ends up abstaining from historical things we all know are wrong and replace them with modern things that are measurably worse; but haven't developed taboo because they are so novel
example: promiscuity would historically result in disease and unwanted children so promiscuity taboo became more apparently about the obvious consequences.
the psychological impacts of promiscuity don't have as much taboo, so once the disease & unwanted pregnancy issues were resolved by technology, humans indulged.
hilariously, the psychological impacts of masturbation did have a historical taboo, leading to very funny human conventions were jerking off is seen as unhealthy but being promiscuous is seen as healthy