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"Poison is bad for you."
Dose makes the poison. Water can kill you. There's nothing wrong with alcohol.
As a nurse, yeah no, you can't really compare those. Water is essential for the human body. Alcohol has no benefits for the human body, quite the opposite.
As far as I know, medicine came to the conclusion that there is no amount higher than 0 that won't harm your body.