Life's great mysteries (things that make NO sense)

[phinds]

I wonder how much different history would be if nobody drank alcohol.

It would be WAY more bloody, especially in Ireland and Scotland

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It would be WAY more bloody, especially in Ireland and Scotland

Way more? Maybe all the booze helps drive the wars. Booze makes many people aggressive and violent.

If everyone smoked weed instead of drinking booze, would they bother or remember to show up for wars?

 

[collinsmark]

I wonder how much different history would be if nobody drank alcohol.

I've given this some thought, I and think the world, and even mankind's physical evolution, would be significantly/measurably different. Maybe not wildly different, but measurable.

And I'm speaking physical evolution, aside from the obvious cultural evolution.

I posit that the cultivation of alcoholic beverages may be one of the most profound, man-made influences on human evolution: up there with fire.

My speculation is based on the alcohol's eons-long running application to human reproductive habits.

(This is all speculation, of course.)

 

[BillTre]

I've given this some thought, I and think the world, and even mankind's physical evolution, would be significantly/measurably different. Maybe not wildly different, but measurable.

And I'm speaking physical evolution, aside from the obvious cultural evolution.

I posit that the cultivation of alcoholic beverages may be one of the most profound, man-made influences on human evolution: up there with fire.

My speculation is based on the alcohol's eons-long running application to human reproductive habits.

(This is all speculation, of course.)

There is also issues of water supply, disease control, and nutrition.

 

[gleem]

I wonder how much different history would be if nobody drank alcohol.

Makes no sense: Leaders making crucial decisions while drinking. I wonder how many wars might have been avoided.

Hitler did not drink much if at all taking only low alcoholic beer occasionally. The Third Reich frowned on excessive drinking.

From the article

A sober Reich? Alcohol and tobacco use in Nazi Germany​

Abstract​

Alcohol and tobacco use did not fit well with National Socialist aesthetics. However, these substances were not proscribed in Nazi Germany in spite of the heavy penalties for excessive use: Alcoholics were sterilized, and smoking by children was a criminal offense. This article argues that the great demand of the German people for these products prevented the authoritarian regime from alcohol and tobacco prohibition but measures were taken by the Nazis to reduce tobacco and alcohol consumption in the next generation.