"It wasn't me, it was the alcohol." "This is not who I am, I was just a drunken idiot." We need to talk about this shit. Thread.pic.twitter.com/56f7HHo64g
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Want to know the kind of stuff I've done while drunk? A classic of the CCC afterparties was hacking into the bar computer and doing some random stuff. Changing the password, ASCII art demos, a Debian chroot was involved at some point. Is that totally me? Yeah.
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I would not do that normally, because that's someone else's property. But does it represent my morals? Yeah, it does. I wasn't hurting anybody, I left things the way they were, I just had some fun. I may have changed what I *chose* to do while drunk, but not what I consider doing
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Getting drunk doesn't magically move your hands to someone else's breasts or ass. If you're doing that while drunk, it means **that is the kind of person you are**. You might *choose* not to do it sober, perhaps due to the fear of consequences, but you still think it's OK.
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And you know what that means? That you'd still do it. That deep down, if you had the chance to do it sober, with zero consequences, and perhaps (if you still have some concern for the other person, which isn't a given) zero remorse, you'd do it.
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Alcohol is the Konami Code, not a GameShark. It only lets you do things that are already in the program. Jiggling the cartridge doesn't turn Super Mario World into Pong. Alcohol doesn't come with a built-in total-control "you are now a sexual predator" TAS sequence.
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So I call bullshit on this idea that what you do while drunk doesn't count, doesn't represent who you are. It damn well fucking does. More than what you do while sober. It represents your true feelings. And if you cross a line, that line was never a line for you.
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And what if I'm wrong, and some people really do change while drunk? They aren't just self-repressed sociopaths showing their true colors, but truly have their core morals warped by the influence of ethanol? Then don't fucking drink. It's still your responsibility.
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It's only recently that we've begun to seriously call zero tolerance on nonconsensual sex (i.e. rape) while intoxicated. Even then, some people still subscribe to the toxic idea that it doesn't really count. Guess what, it extends beyond rape. It goes for everything.
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It goes for groping. It goes for drinking and driving. It goes for any kind of harassment. It goes for reckless behavior that would put others in danger. Alcohol is never an excuse. The only thing you get a free pass on is looking/acting like a (harmless) idiot. Period.
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James, I'm glad you've managed to cut down on an alcohol problem. You say you've been working on becoming a better person. Know what your next step is? Stop blaming it on your former alcohol problem and actually change who you are. It's not about the ethanol. It never was.
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