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Soya Igari (24), a member of the five-person Jr. group “KEY TO LIT,” questioned the common claim from older generations that “alcohol is medicine” and “the best cure for a hangover is more alcohol,” during the September 23 broadcast of “Honma de ka!? TV.” While host Akashiya Sanma invoked the old saying that drinking in moderation is “the best of all medicines,” Igari shot back, “There’s no way alcohol is good for you. I honestly don’t get it.” The remark split 5ch commenters between those sympathizing with Igari and those defending the tradition of an evening drink, sparking a broader debate over which does more social harm: alcohol or tobacco.
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Soya Igari (24), a member of the five-person Jr. group “KEY TO LIT (Kiteretsu),” appeared on Fuji TV’s “Honma de ka!? TV” (Wednesdays, 9:00 p.m.), aired on the 23rd. In a segment where guests shared behavior from the Showa and Heisei generations that felt “impossible to take seriously,” the episode aired as a special titled “Sanma vs. Reiwa Common Sense! Bridging the Generation Gap.”
Igari pointed out, “Something I honestly don’t get about the older generation — don’t they always say things like ‘alcohol is medicine’?” Host Akashiya Sanma responded, “Well, there’s that old saying, ‘the best of all medicines.’” Igari pressed on: “They always say things like ‘cure a hangover with more alcohol.’ It just seems crazy to me. It doesn’t make sense. There’s no way alcohol is good for you,” he said, shaking his head.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
it's medicine for the soul,
kid.
But your sleep gets shallower because your body's busy breaking down the alcohol,
so falling asleep faster doesn't actually mean anything.
People who have trouble falling asleep often have shallow sleep anyway, even without drinking.
Just knowing you got X hours of "sleep" (i.e., passed out) is reassuring enough on its own.
it just gets a pass because the vested interests behind it are too huge.
There's also the human-rights angle — a drunk person is essentially treated as being in a state comparable to a mental health crisis.
The damage drinking alcohol does to society is clearly worse than 🚬 —
fatal accidents, violence, and murders caused by 🚬 are pretty rare.
quite the group name they got stuck with.
wonder if they even know the original meaning of the word.
from morning till night,
they'd call that crazy too, huh Korosuke.
adults are just automatically supposed to do,
that's a relief for those of us who don't drink.
you won't even be able to eat rice, oil, salt, or sugar anymore (´･ω･｀)
I honestly don't get skipping baths ("furo-kyan") either.
Vaccines are basically like poison too —
that's why we run thorough clinical trials!
in the end, the group with the lowest mortality was the one that didn't drink at all.
So many people have screwed up while drunk that forgiving others has basically become a culture of forgiving yourself too.
the saying "alcohol is the best of all medicines" comes from a Chinese classical text —
it was originally just an excuse for the government to justify its monopoly on alcohol, salt, and iron.
fatal mistake for a TV personality.
You don't get it — in moderation, it's good for you.
My hand tremors stop the moment I drink.
A total wreck when sober, but sharp as a tack once they've had a drink —
feel like there was a character just like that in Bakabon.
Background and Points of Debate
The saying “alcohol is the best of all medicines” traces back to a Chinese classical text, and as several thread commenters pointed out, it’s believed to have originated as a justification for the state’s monopoly on alcohol, salt, and iron. Meanwhile, the so-called “J-curve” theory — which held that moderate drinking lowers mortality — has been criticized for a statistical bias, since the comparison group lumped in people who had already quit drinking due to poor health; in recent years the WHO has taken the clear position that there is no safe amount of alcohol, that the safe amount is zero. The divide in the thread reflects a temperature gap between the generation defending the long-standing culture of the evening drink and TV’s “anything’s forgivable if you were drunk” attitude, and a younger generation that puts more weight on health data. Rather than being a judgment on Igari personally, the debate ends up putting the common wisdom — repeated on TV again and again — that “alcohol is good for you” under scrutiny, making it an easy point of agreement for non-drinking viewers.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “KEY TO LIT’s Soya Igari Reveals Older Generation’s “Impossible to Take Seriously” Behavior: “Stuff Like Alcohol Is Medicine” — “There’s No Way Alcohol Is Good for You. I Honestly Don’t Get It.”“.
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