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as an alcoholic myself (10 years sober) if you can have a few drinks once and awhile and it doesn't affect your life in any way whats so ever then power to you. If it's fun for you every now again but not on the regular, then again, power to you.
For people like me we can't do that. we don't know where the stop button is and in many cases don't care to find it. for otherx saying "drinking is bad full stop it has health issues even if you have one drink every month" oh let the baby have their bottles and ignore them. if you can drink and it's not destroying anything and you can still function then have at it.
I have one drink most nights. At most it relaxes me a little, but mainly I just enjoy the flavor /sensory experience.
I understand the pleasures of the experience of getting drunk, but pursuing that is a losing proposition. Over time it gets harder to achieve the pleasurable effects and the negative effects come on faster.
(I meant to post this as a top level comment. Since I left it here I'll just add that I'm lucky enough to be someone who can stop, though there have been many times I didn't have the sense to. After drinking too much, my body tells me No the next day. I've known people who's body tells them to have another drink the next day. I've been lucky.)
No one is suggesting that the "baby can't have the bottle".