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In order to lower rates of alcoholism, All alcoholic beverages must be packaged in 6 liter bottles or larger, and priced accordingly.

Posted by Down_To_My_Last_Fuck@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 15 comments

This should also slow down panhandlers, Underage Drinking, Open Container (maybe),

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lefthandbunny@reddit

Your idea is to crazy to work. You're talking 3 1/2 handles (the large bottles that literally have a carrying handle) of hard liquor. If you think a handle is too much for an alcoholic to drink in one day you don't know alcoholism. If you think they would never keep drinking if they had 3 1/2 handles on hand you don't know alcoholism. There is a saying that 1,000 drinks aren't enough and 1 drink is too many. That saying describes it.
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Down_To_My_Last_Fuck@reddit (OP)

I just figure that most alcoholics start out small. Kids especially. They aren't going to be able to sneak around with a five ton bottle of liquor. A pan handler would have to spend a week saving up the money to get a jug, that's a lot of drive, by the time they make it they may realize it's not worth it. I mean, sure your dyed in the wool drunks would shrug it off or even embrace those huge ass bottles as a mark of accomplishment (talking to you dad). But I feel like majy more would want to hide them and how's that going to work out?
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lefthandbunny@reddit

Who said they were going to lug around the whole bottle? Who said they weren't already alcoholics when the rule went into effect? Who said the kids/panhandlers won't pool their money or steal to get the alcohol? Most 'drunks' don't see those empty bottles as an accomplishment, they see it as yet another failure, it makes them more depressed, and so they go onto the next bottle. I'm sorry about your dad. My son quit paying his bills but he still found the money to buy the handles of vodka that killed him a few months ago. He didn't hide the bottles. He lived alone. There were several empty handles in his apartment when he was found dead.
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Down_To_My_Last_Fuck@reddit (OP)

Jesus fucking christ do you know where you are?
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lefthandbunny@reddit

Yep and as I said, your idea is too crazy to work.
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dacreux@reddit

Honestly all you need to do is put the calories and nutritional information on the bottle somewhere, people would reconsider drinking if they knew every shot was 100cal and every beer was 250cal
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Megalocerus@reddit

Panhandlers are often severely addicted. If they can't get their fix, they can have life-threatening levels of DTs. There is a reason liquor stores were not forced to close during the Covid lock down. (There are severely addicted alcoholics all over, but it is the homeless ones most apt to be in trouble.)
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RRW359@reddit

What if I sell my labor (not alcohol since it's already owned by someone) in order to put alcohol into smaller containers and then give those away for free to the person who bought my labor?
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ChintzyFob@reddit

Have you ever met an alcoholic? This is an unbelievably tiny inconvenience for them.
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Dhegxkeicfns@reddit

Yeah, put payday loaners in liquor stores for a real treat.
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NativeMasshole@reddit

I used to work at one of those huge destination liquor stores. Old people would buy the giant 4L bottles of Carlo Rossi all the time, sometimes by the case. And I'd be left wondering how they were going to pour it.
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AK-TP@reddit

Now only alcoholics drink, and now everyone who gets into drinking becomes an alcoholic. Excellent. Frat boys are rebottling booze to sell six packs.
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joeyb82@reddit

. . . this would actually exacerbate the problem.
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Hint-Of-Feces@reddit

That's just a small keg or boxed wine I'll take a box of white label evan Williams please
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terra_technitis@reddit

When I was an alcoholic I would have welcomed this. Two beers sound a lot better than thirty.
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