“3 or more, is or is well on the way to a serious problem.”
3 or more in EVERY 24 hour period, maybe, but 3 or more in any given 24 hour period means nothing. That’s the fallacy in your logic. By your standards, someone could have a half dozen cocktails one night and not another one for a year and they have a “serious problem”. Nobody believes that. Perhaps you misinterpreted what you heard.
Should take this to PM but alcohol is such a huge problem around the world, I’m willing to persist. Father Martin used to do a famous chalk talk about alcoholism. He told the story of of a guy who got drunk the 1st time. He lost his license. He got dunk the 2nd time and cost a family their loved ones and him a lot of money and some time in prison. He got drunk a 3rd time and cause more death and almost his own and lost his freedom for life. In prison, he concluded accurately that he was an alcoholic.