Originally Posted by
louis 
Also i did look up the differnce between alcohol dependence and alcoholism and they generally say... alcoholism is the dependence of alcohol
This is a total fallacy!
Proposition: Alcoholism is alcohol dependence
Postulate: Any human being who consume enough alcohol over a long enough period of time will become alcohol dependent.
Contention: Given the postulate, the proposition leads to the conclusion that every human being is by nature alcoholic.
This contention is absurd.
QED via
Reductio ad Absurdum