...or, It's always someone else's fault, even to European lefties:
Countries around the world are pledging to get tough with companies that market beer and liquor on social media networks such as Facebook, warning that such promotions threaten to entice a new generation into harmful drinking patterns.
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Online sites have been used by European youths organizing massive binge drinking festivals that are being increasingly scrutinized by authorities. Last week, a 21-year-old man died in France after an accident at an alcohol-drenched party organized on Facebook attended by 10,000 young revelers.
Sorry, but this is unmitigated bullshit, too. No one is making these people abuse alcohol. They are making those decisions all on their own, and I tend to think that those influenced by advertising who go on those drinking binges and end up drinking themselves into a permanent sleep are just more examples of Darwin's theories in action. And don't you love how the WHO recommends not targeting young people because those ads could also attract adolescents? Maybe if the parents of adolescents actually, you know, acted as PARENTS to their kids maybe they wouldn't go off drinking. More of the nanny state in action, I suppose...
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