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I have thought about this conversation a lot more since my last comment. One thing I concluded was, "You can cheat to pass the test, but at the cost of learning the material." Alcohol does allow a person an easy or fast way to resolve a situation, especially if a person's overly inhibited sober. (Anxiety, second-guessing, worrywarts, overthinkers.) I also thought that I think we mostly agree. I thought maybe we are describing flip sides of the same coin, and that maybe what we're saying is this: alcohol does offer an effective short-term fix to a lot of rough patches. But in the long-term it prevents good solutions and allows a person to avoid what they would do better to feel and learn how to handle.