Comment by Eddy_Viscosity2

> whether a society would rather be individualistic or collectivist

Like many of these sorts of choices, its false to think of it as binary because its about choosing a place on the continuum between them.

On the methanal risk issue, one possible compromise would to have places which can run free checks on booze for methanal. Not too different from the practice in France where you can bring in mushrooms you've collected to the pharmacist who can tell you which ones are delicious and which are death incarnate. But of course this would have to be a publicly funded service which america seems to loathe ("I'd rather go blind than have a single tax dollar go to free booze testing!")