What is the point of decaf?

Ever think about this connundrum? Why would you ever drink decaf coffee? I drink coffee most days, I enjoy the taste, the aroma, but would I drink it if it contained no caffeine? Hell no. It has a pleasant taste but its not good enough to drink based on taste alone. That's like going into a bar and asking for non-alcoholic gin. "I just love the taste of gin so much. But I don't want to get drunk." The point of coffee is that its a drug, not food. "I don't want to feel the effects of heroin anymore, but I've acquired a taste for the delivery system. That's why I shoot up water in the morning." Coffee isn't good for you. The caffeine is even worse, but even decaf isn't good for you. The point of a drug is that its not good for you but its effects are so pleasant that you do it anyway. Why would you hurt yourself without getting a high out of it?

I have to liken it to why people drink non-alcoholic beer: Because they are recovering alcoholics. I've tasted several different brands of non-alcoholic beer, and it all tastes like shit. The alcohol bite is a subtle but extremely essential factor in the enjoyability of the taste of beer. I doubt very many O'Doul's drinkers do so because they think the taste is delicious. Non-alcoholic beer drinkers do so because they used to drink, and its really hard to make a complete lifestyle charge when going off the wagon. You still want to go out with your friends, you just don't want to drink, so to ease the pain you sip an O'Doul's as a social and psychological crutch, it gives you a reminiscent taste, you feel like you're partying, even more importantly, you LOOK like you're partying, so you don't have to be the lamo in the bar drinking Fanta. Its a crutch so you can still hang out with your friends while preserving your health. So my conclusion is that decaf must only be for people that are trying to kick, or illogical people that drink it for the taste, which means they probably cover up the taste of the actually coffee by dumping tons of sugar and cream and honey and crap in there. Completely retarded.

"I'm going to drink non-alcoholic beer because I wish I was drinking beer but I want to be good; but beer without alcohol tastes pretty shitty, so I'll put so many additives in the beer that it tastes like Sprite." How about drinking Sprite. Or in coffee terms, how about not drinking coffee, and just drink sugar-milk you poor confused soul. If there are any decaf drinkers out there that take it black, please explain your rationale, or lack thereof. "I am weird and like the taste of black" is the ONLY acceptable answer.