I think all of you including the letter writer are totally mixing up the issues and by doing so you water down the severity of it all
The issue is not that people enjoy one type of scotch over another or if a mature adult has a few shots at a yartzeit kiddush (that’s his desion as a mature or not so adult ) or the costs of the shnaps at a wedding (that’s the person that’s paying for its problem stupid him throwing out his money like that these “problems” have been around since the invention of the drink
The main issue is self control if we live our lives out of control and that goes for everything let it be the way we dress the jealousy the backstaging and so forth then its no wonder one has no self control when it comes to drinking its no wonder a teenager that was never taught by hos father moderation and self control that was brought up what ever you want how ever you want (and theres no reason to blame this on the “IVY LEAGE YESHIVAH”) then what do you expect where always giving excuses for bad behaver its everyone and everything but ones self
Let’s take a minute step back and look into our lives and the chinuch of our children are we acting and teaching self control schar veonesh or do we just let every thing slide by for after all it wasent my fault