Because when you're fucked up and you're really mad at someone all you care about is that they get the shit beat out of them, not the satisfaction of remembering that you did the beating The drug giving you a mind-wipe and letting you expiate your guilt is all upside
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People deliberately start whole communities, subcultures around taking a Jekyll and Hyde potion so Mr. Hyde can come out and do the things you really want to do and Dr. Jekyll can argue with a straight face he's not responsible for any of it
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(Psst drugs like this really exist, with varying degrees of effectiveness, and are used for this purpose all the time It may not be the *best* such drug but the oldest and cheapest one is called alcohol The culture around getting drunk to hurt people is thousands of years old)
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It's a big question, isn't it There's the whole thing about reading a news story from the 1920s about a guy who drove a car through a storefront and killed a bunch of people, but his lawyer got it pled down to a lesser crime Because everyone saw he was extremely drunk
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Replying to @arthur_affect
This is significantly better than most plot devices that are about mind alteration of some sort... Interesting.
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Replying to @ireneista @arthur_affect
We're normally against stories that magnify the Jekyll and Hyde trope, because that trope is horrible representation that has done a lot of harm to the plural community (since long before we were a community). Interesting take, still.
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My hot take about Jekyll and Hyde has ALWAYS been "The magic potion is just booze" If you remove the whole science fiction aspect of the story and just say the potion is alcohol, the whole thing becomes a completely normal thing that happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME
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"Some famous rich guy turned out to be going downtown at night dressed all different and doing awful things to sex workers Ended up with a girl getting killed They said he always showed up totally loaded, he seemed like a totally different guy"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ireneista
The minute you mentioned Jekyll and Hyde I was like yeah, that story is about booze, right? Like even the potion not working so he cant switch back at the end is just what happens when an extremely alcoholic person tries to quit cold turkey and get withdrawal.
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Replying to @queerthecloset @ireneista
Precisely! And once he's established the harmful pattern of behavior Hyde starts to be able to assert himself without any use of the potion, *especially* when he's tried to go cold turkey for a long period and Hyde gets "restless"
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This is exactly what people in addiction recovery call being a "dry drunk", that an addict who was using the chemical as a way to excuse harmful behavior, to "give me a chance to blow off steam", will start blowing off that steam anyway when stone cold sober
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