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Is there ever a reason to get blindingly drunk?
Alcohol is a social lubricant. I enjoy a drink, or if the scotch is exceptional, a few drinks. In social situations I will indulge in so far as the particular company indicates that such an indulgence is expected and desirable. Not so little as to mark me as odd and not so much as to draw any attention to myself. A pretty wife in a well cut black dress draws the all the attention to my person that I need.
However inebriation is not a course I advocate for myself. Only the weak and foolish allow themselves to lose control of a situation. And when a person is drunk, all reason and control are thrown out and replaced with a logic unique and peculiar to the realm of intoxication. And it is a logic in which a person becomes vulnerable to the whims of emotion and passion. Not a wise course for a person with a job to get done.
By this argument there exists then good reason to get others inebriated. To lower their defences and render them vulnerable to conduct that they would otherwise supress. People tend to be more pliable when unable to excersise good judgement. You can provoke in them anger, suspicion, revolution, despair, loathing, panic, desperation, desire with ease. Of course the seeds of their emotion must already lie dormant, but men are filled with such insecurities if a person only knows of the correct trigger to press.
And the most wonderful thing is, it is entirely legal. More crimes are committed every year that involve alcohol, than any other drug. More deaths are assisted by the ingestion of this wonderful substance. The irony is not lost of me.
What a wonderful world we live in. Life is good.
Alcohol is a social lubricant. I enjoy a drink, or if the scotch is exceptional, a few drinks. In social situations I will indulge in so far as the particular company indicates that such an indulgence is expected and desirable. Not so little as to mark me as odd and not so much as to draw any attention to myself. A pretty wife in a well cut black dress draws the all the attention to my person that I need.
However inebriation is not a course I advocate for myself. Only the weak and foolish allow themselves to lose control of a situation. And when a person is drunk, all reason and control are thrown out and replaced with a logic unique and peculiar to the realm of intoxication. And it is a logic in which a person becomes vulnerable to the whims of emotion and passion. Not a wise course for a person with a job to get done.
By this argument there exists then good reason to get others inebriated. To lower their defences and render them vulnerable to conduct that they would otherwise supress. People tend to be more pliable when unable to excersise good judgement. You can provoke in them anger, suspicion, revolution, despair, loathing, panic, desperation, desire with ease. Of course the seeds of their emotion must already lie dormant, but men are filled with such insecurities if a person only knows of the correct trigger to press.
And the most wonderful thing is, it is entirely legal. More crimes are committed every year that involve alcohol, than any other drug. More deaths are assisted by the ingestion of this wonderful substance. The irony is not lost of me.
What a wonderful world we live in. Life is good.