@dappled_leaves If you don’t get it, then I suppose you had a totally different type of early life than me and 99.4% of the people I know. Nothing wrong with that, mind you, but it does make you stand out. That kind of implies that you had a pretty abnormal, far-from-average early adulthood; you never had a “foolish” stage, or at least not the same type of foolish stage as most people did sometime between 15 and 25.
As for your inability to imagine “getting totally shit-faced” as an end in and of itself, I have to remind myself that what is blatantly obvious to me isn’t always clear to others. (That is a personal shortcoming of mine.) I take for granted that people understand that chemically-induced euphoria is reason enough for many to want to pickle their liver. Then there is the “mental anesthetic” of escapism that alcohol gives, though that is more for older folks who have suffered emotional trauma than for thrill-seeking kids. Then there is the “social drinking gone too far” as most of those who are into the cheap booze aren’t at the age where they even acknowledge that there are limits, let alone that they have any; they are invincible.
Since I erroneously assumed you understood that part, I figured that you just needed the exact numbers to understand the “why”.