Miljenko, thank you for taking the time to reply and share your perspective. I really appreciate it.

My friend also had a personality change that didn't seem in proportion to my own experience. I'm deeply humbled by that, and I admire your commitment. If you're up for sharing, I'd really like to understand how you related to this personality change. Is this "something wrong with you" physiologic? Emotional? Mental? Is it transgenerationl, or personal? Some combination of all of these?

To your other points, if you're interested in clicking through I have cited the work I'm responding to with hyperlinks. And your opinion on the evolutionary role of alcohol doesn't fit with the research and writing that has informed own understanding. Here are a few of them, if you're up for replying I'd love to know what points you disagree with:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/books/review/drunk-edward-slingerland.html

https://bookshop.org/books/drunk-how-we-sipped-danced-and-stumbled-our-way-to-civilization/9780316453387https://medium.com/the-atlantic/america-has-a-drinking-problem-2b516de6c07f