Is it a Right to Intoxicate Yourself?

            Is this a right? Should drinking alcohol be illegal? Find out in this outstanding writing assignment.

            I personally do not believe in drinking alcohol (as you already know). It is very, very bad for your body. It destroys you, you get addicted to it, and it destroys you more, and, eventually, kills you. Also, I am a Mormon and Mormons don’t drink. But is drinking a right?

            Intoxicating yourself is a right. You can drink poison if you want to. Alcohol is your property, if you purchase it. However, it is not okay to take away other people’s rights because you have intoxicated yourself.

            For example, people drive drunk all the time. If you drive reckless and take away others’ rights, then drinking alcohol is not a right because taking away others’ rights is not a right. You could take away their life by crashing your car into them. You could take away their liberty because you could seriously injure them and they could have disabilities. You could take away their property by destroying their car. You could take away their right to the pursuit of happiness because a loved one in the car could be injured or killed. You could take away all of these things from them.

            Drinking alcohol is a right as long as you don’t take away other’s rights as a result of your actions. But alcohol is bad for you anyway (of course you knew that).