Taking money from parents for LIVING, EATING, STUDYING and taking money from your parents for: DRINKING, SMOKING POT, DRINKING AND THROWING UP WHEN YOU'RE IN YOUR 20s, AND SMOKING MORE POT is: be sure to read this part: DIFFERENT. As in not the same thing. Repeat again, not the same thing. Working to support yourself and your studies is different than taking money from parents to drink and party (and in a very uncivilized manner). Maybe you put university education and 'alcohol + pot' in the same category, that's your faulty reasoning.