Now it's not because drinking is good or fun or something that everybody needs to do... it's pretty dumb and it's not something that I particularly enjoy doing myself. But not even trying something that plenty of people enjoy because you've seen or heard it have some negative effects on others just seems weak to me. It's like they don't have enough faith in themselves to think that they would be able to handle it and just have a good time without going overboard and doing something stupid.
But I guess that feeling doesn't really have anything to do with drinking and it's more about people who don't like trying new things.
So what you're saying is that you take offense to people that are not willing to try things that are hazardous to their own well-being? Or rather, that a wide body of knowledge informed them of, rather than them finding out first-hand?
I'm pretty sure that it's not healthy to slit one's wrists either, and I don't really care how much pleasure it brings to people who think they need to inflict pain on themselves to "feel," I'm not about to try that either.