Deeper Goals

When you consume alcohol, there’s a good chance your prime goal is not to consume alcohol: you’re looking to socialize, you’re interested in feeling altered, you’re maybe just parched and want something to drink.

The same is true of many activities we engage in regularly; the act itself may be just one possible means of achieving an actual, deeper goal.

In such cases, there may be other, superior (for our purposes) means of accomplishing the same outcomes: you could pop around a party with...