Why do you drink excessively?

No, I am not talking to the average citizens. I have a specific target group in mind. College students, who pass out and get into a lot of trouble from continuous excessive drinking of alcohol, are my audience.

You are somewhat of a free, rational agent, who is capable of making sound decisions. You are enrolled in an undergraduate institution, which I must say is a privilege even in our great United States, and you are given the opportunity by your parents and your institution to succeed academically and move beyond as an educated class of our society. Some of you have dreams of becoming someone significant, such as a government official or a head of a company, to lead our nation to the next era. Most of you have dreamed of such academic opportunity as you were sitting and waiting in your respective boring high school classrooms.

But now, you are a shame. I don't care what kind of circumstance led you to this pitiful situation, but you have incredibly become a wild animal. Drinking as much alcohol as you can consciously do in parties or playing drinking games to engage in a phony, socially constructed environment is not only irrational but a crime. It is a crime not only against your well being but a betrayal to your parents and all other people who have supported you throughout your life. Even with such stark confrontation, you will probably continue your behavior and tell me to mind my own life.

OK. I will mind my own private life under a condition. If you are lead to some health problems resulting from your late night engulfing of alcohol, then don't go to a hospital. No, don't use our community resources to repair your own damages, which you have inflicted to yourself by your own judgment, and waste our time and money. No, I am not going to allow doctors or nurses to treat you, when you have a medical condition from alcohol poisoning. Your institution spent so much time and resources to educate you on properly drinking alcohol without going overboard, but you blew it. We, the society, have done everything to teach you on the risks of drinking uncontrollably, and you still with your smart brain decided to walk the path of hell.  Don’t' expect us to give you a helping hand.

There are people in this country who are struggling to go day by day. Three secure meals a day is a luxury for these people, and for many their misfortunes are rooted in circumstantial factors that were beyond their control. They work day and night in order to survive, but you decided to spend all those precious money that either your parents have given to you or you yourself have earned to alcohol. With that money these unfortunate people can have a day of relief and enjoy a full stomach, but by spending the money on alcohol you have decided to have a night of phony partying and an upset body later on. We have an injustice in the world for having poverty to even happen in our soil, and I declare that you are shamefully part of this injustice. While a poor child might go hungry again during dinner time 50 miles away, you are with your drinking friends to gather money and to figure out how to get the night's worth of alcohol.

Don't get me wrong. You are not breaking any laws. In fact, you are acting in accordance to all legal and national principles. You are free to make these decisions, and I do not intend in stopping you. Go ahead and drink the night out. I wish that your activities will lead to such materially pleasurable night. Hope you can remember your shameful activities.

Wait, did I make a moral judgment? This is the point of my attack on you. While we have poverty and other social problems in our land, you've decided on the path of temporary cognitive destruction for the sake of participating in a social culture that has been passed down for generations. A fellow human being is at the state of mercy without food or other critical amenities, and yet you decide to spend your surplus on a night of alcohol poisoning, which leads to drain of community health resource.

Sure, you might object that it is your life and that you are thus the sole agent in determining your life course. Agreed, except that you are forgetting all the individuals, who spent their time and resources to get you where you are now. Sure, I am not suggesting that they should butt in your life and critique on your drinking habits, but shouldn't you consider their contribution to your current standing during your decision making process? Imagine what your parent's reaction might be if they knew you were going to an all drink-a-long party for the night.

You are the utmost disgusting and regressive part of our society.