Contemporary Thoughts of Alcohol "Alcohol is a drug. Unlike other drugs, it is available to anyone of legal age and easily acquired. Two out of three Americans over age 18 use some alcoholic beverage" Wilcox, Introduction. Seeing how alcohol has some to be one of the mainstream accepted lifestyles in contemporary America, we need to question many aspects of it. "The NIAAA estimates that more than 11 million adults in the US are alcohol dependent and another 7 million regularly abuse alcohol" Wilcox, Introduction. Seeing that this is such a big problem we need to seek solutions for those who...
By taking this definition we should completely reject the use of alcohol on ethical terms. However, on other terms that look at the results of what happens when one consumes alcohol we see that the results are horrible. Among the worse incidents are those that break up families or commit accidents such as driving drunk or harming someone physically. If it is a known effect that the use of alcohol will bring this about one ethical perspective says that it is unethical to follow anything that will bring harm in the future thus we should also reject it.