drink of choice

I recently got into an argument with my friend Sam about which drink is the best to order from a bar. I argued that whiskey and diet coke are better and she argued that beer is better. I claimed that whiskey and diet coke is cheaper, less fattening and less filling. She claimed that beer was better because she could drink more without getting too drunk. The evidence I used to support my claim that whiskey and diet coke is cheaper was the fact that you only need to drink a few in order to get the same kind of buzz that would require 3-4 beers. Sam challenged that argument by saying that my reasoning was flawed because we are girls we aren’t paying for drinks the majority of the time anyway and so price shouldn’t be factored in to what makes a drink “the best”. She argued that it was better to drink beer because we work at a brewery and usually drink beer before we go out to the bar, and “liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.. beer before liquor never been sicker”. I see now that this is a logical fallacy because that is just something that people say and it appeals to tradition but in all reality probably doesn’t mean anything. I argued that no matter what it is less fattening to drink diet coke and whiskey than it is to drink beer, revealing that I value my body and the first thing I look for when choosing a cocktail is calorie content. Sam argued that she feels more in control when she is drinking beer and doesn’t black out, which shows that she values self control. We each had strengths and weaknesses to our arguments but we realized that we defined “the best” in very different ways, and held different values for cocktails.