As an alcoholic - sober 6 years on January 1, 2025 - I can comfortably say that my addiction is my problem. I do not expect the world to comport to my issues.

If an alcoholic is triggered by this name they need more tools in their toolkit.

The best thing anyone in recovery* can do is build up a toolkit and support system to stay sober. If one expects the world to isolate them from temptation they will never get sober.

* recovery: I loathe this term, but use it because it's familiar. My dislike for it is another conversation and unnecessary here.

Luna stigmatizes people with mental illnesses (lunatic) and Artemis was the goddess of virginty—valorizing feminine virginity is misogynistic.

You can play this game with every possible name.

Offensiveness is certainly a sliding scale and infused by the culture of the recipients. I agree with OP that some thought should be given to a name to not inflict hurt unnecessarily but also wouldn't have caught moonshine as a term celebrating alcoholism (which is still one of the most damaging drugs available, c.f. David Nutt's Drugs without the hot air).

great example (tutorial) how to get offended by anything.

How is it irresponsible?

I guess jaco6 thinks recovering addicts shouldn't be reminded of their addiction. I also guess that is casting a quite wide net on speech.

I’m also awaiting an answer for such a preposterous claim. Let’s rename Svelte because it reminds me of Swedish pancakes and I have diabetes.

now i really want pancakes.

Me too. People should really be more careful.

Isn't it clearly a reference to the idiom "talking moonshine", making it a self-deprecating joke?

You think it’s irresponsible to name something a drug?

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