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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This is significantly better than most plot devices that are about mind alteration of some sort... Interesting.
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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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Here's a thing: I am absolutely NOT a different person when drunk, regardless of amount. I feel a bit floaty, and yeah, somewhat lowered inhibition, mostly in terms of not obsessing over every little thing. But I'm definitely still me, and still aware of my actions.
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I've definitely said and done things I'd be too self-conscious to do sober (I would NEVER sing in public when sober), but I can't honestly ascribe anything 100 % to alcohol. And I don't doubt different people have different reactions to alcohol, not calling anyone liars, but...
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Yeah I don't think alcohol has a complicated enough effect on the human brain to "create a different personality" -- when that happens, that's people believing the hazy fuzzy feeling of drunkenness is giving them *permission* to do stuff they honestly also want to do sober
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I'm also somewhat skeptical of how often people have blackouts. I know it happens; I've lost time exactly twice (weirdly, I can't correlate it directly to amount consumed). But I have no doubt it's also often bullshit, easy excuse. The cherry on top of the "different person".
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