Posted: Jun 25, 2021 2:35 pm
hackenslash wrote:Keep It Real wrote:drinking alcohol does in fact "go against everything I believe in." What do I believe in? That people need claim responsibility for our actions and thus behave responsibly.
I don't get this. Alcohol does not, in any way, shape or form, absolve you of responsibility for your actions.
I have what many would describe as an extremely unhealthy relationship with intoxicants in general, and with alcohol in particular, but I've never taken any action that wasn't still entirely my doing.
To the extent that alcohol has contributed to my actions at all, it's only ever in exposing what I really think because the usual veneer of civility slips in the face of some behaviour where, were I sober, I'd have been able to keep the mask in place. What this should tell us is that behaviour exhibited while intoxicated is your base behaviour. In vino veritas, one of the few truisms that actually holds water. Alcohol doesn't take over you, it reveals you.
Same here as far "as an extremely unhealthy relationship with intoxicants in general, and with alcohol in particular" is concerned. What I've realised is that it's not the intoxicated "me" that is to blame for doing things that I regret afterwards, it's the sober "me" that gets irritated, angry, disillusioned, whatever and then makes plans to get intoxicated knowing FULL WELL what doing so might result in.