Teetotalism is a strange word, and no one is sure where it comes from. One story goes that it came from a stutterer named Dicky Turner who said, at a meeting of the Preston Temperance Society in 1832, that the only acceptable behavior is "tee-tee-total abstinence." Ol' crazy stuttering Dicky.
I myself can't claim to be a teetotaler. I like a good drink every now and then as much as the next guy. But I respect teetotaling. If you don't like to drink, don't do it. Fine by me. Prohibition on the other hand, not so good. All it leads to is old-timey gangsters and old-timey machine guns.
In general, I'm against prohibiting things but in support of letting people not do things if they don't want to.
Not a teetotaler.
Photo: Christopher Henning via Flickr (CC)
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