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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
While it's great that responsible use can provide a good, worthwhile example for someone like monochron, someone else may take away from it that it's ok to drink with dinner every night, and that impression may lead to problems down the road. Better, in my personal opinion, is to show the students that it's possible for adults to go out and have a good time without any alcohol.
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It is true that both of those lessons are good ones. I don't think your suggestion would have had much of an affect on me because I had seen these mentors have a good time before. We had eaten dinner before and had seen my parents enjoy themselves without alcohol. What the night showed me was that alcohol can be used in moderation (something I didn't fully comprehend at the time) rather than alcohol isn't necessary (something that I had already seen many times in my life).