or just remove the inhibitions that help us hide our character?

this will be a controversial thread, especially coming from a woman, but if someone , for instance, cannot stand the taste of liver, will drinking cause them to eat it?

if one would not ever be willing to lie in bed with a stranger, does drinking cause them to do it anyhow?

is someone truly a non consenting victim of a sexual rape in all cases, because they chose to drink or

is there a difference between a drinking female who goes home with a guy, undresses, and lays in bed with him

and a girl who drinks, lets a guy walk her home, and then gets assaulted?




should drinking be an excuse for bad choices and alleviate all responsibility for what comes after?

Well chemically alcohol slows down the brain & when your brain is slow & numb with degrading processes going on, one can tend to have uncharacteristic behaviour

En vino veritas.

I don't partake of alcoholic beverages, of any kind.

But yes, studies have shown, that drinking alcoholic beverages, can alter a person's personality.

Long term alcoholism, can induce early onset dementia. As well as, a plethora of other mental health issues, and physical health problems.

As alcohol, can "turn" a seemingly okay person, into a useless drooling fool...
... and "turn" a seemingly loving person, into a raging violent lunatic...

I simply have no use for drunks.

Arhhhh yes

From a long running personal experience with a loved one who has a drinking problem I can tell you that alcohol certainly did change her character. Like night and day. Like 2 totally different people. And not for the good.

But no, it does not alleviate you from the responsibility of YOUR actions while drunk and it should not be used as a excuse for bad choices. The choice was theirs to get drunk in the 1st place.

Many people who drink (and abuse) alcohol would never dream of doing some of the things they did had they not been drunk.

That being said, you are responsible for your actions, not the actions of someone else. Meaning being drunk is not a reason to be taken advantage of by anyone.

Dito

Alcohol is a central-nervous-system depressant. When a toxic amount of it is consumed by a person, that person may drop her/his guard and say/do something that the person thought of saying/doing but never acted on. Hence the saying "en vino veritas".

Both?
I remember in high school some friends brought a pony keg of o'douls, and within a couple of glasses people were acting all drunk on it doing stupid things like one guy wearing his moms clothes, and another having really slurred speech expressing his deep feelings.


Maybe.
If they are drunk and are playing truth or dare and a dare is to eat it.
If someone drinks a beer with dinner it won't transform them into liver lovers. Maybe if they're drinking moonshine and it kills all their tastebuds and sense of smell for a while or something.


Maybe.
Some would, some won't.
It depends on why they wouldn't sleep with a stranger.
Some people won't sleep with a stranger because they want to maintain the facade of being a "good" and "pure" person.
Others won't sleep with a stranger because they don't want an STD, or pregnancy.
Others won't sleep with a stranger because it represents not having control.
Some reasons are more malleable with, or permeable to, alcohol than others.


In "all" cases, as an absolute?
No.
Not "all" cases.


Lots of differences.
Depends on the culture of the people involved and the laws the people live under, and depends on individual interpretations of the details.

It's why things like this go to court.


If you blindfold yourself while driving a car, I don't think you can blame the blindfold and absolve yourself of all responsibility for what happens with the car after you can't see.

But there's generally a huge gap in perspective and reasoning between social opinion and legal statute.

as growing up with a abusive drunk father
i would say hell yeah it does

he wouldn't remember anything he did in the morning

Hell no....drinkin' did not do the wrong...the person who drank did...lol...if I do or say somthing unappealing...i drank...lol... ..,,

I know someone who exhibits odd behavior, like hot and cold, mood swings, going from being sweet to being nasty. Since alcohol alters behavior, I wonder if he has a drinking problem. His behavior has always frustrated and depressed me. This would explain a lot.

...some of us who chose this particular vice have no thought to our friends..loved ones...drank a little earlier so I will be kind and not get deep...nope...no deep for me...hahaha...

No, drinking doesn't do all that. It is the person that does it. First, it is the person who chose to drink, not the drink, and one should be responsible for one's own action. Second, not everyone who drinks behave like that. It is only the cowards who can't do what they want when they are sober that uses the excuse of alcohol to release their hidden and suppressed nature, desire and mindset. Whatever a person does when one is drunk comes from what is stored in one's head, not a foreign idea or thought, except in the case of hallucination or severe mental breakdown resulting from alcohol abuse. Whatever the case, it is the person who abuse the drink, not vice versa, and whatever behaviour one exhibits after getting drunk solely depends on the person's mental state and temperament, not alcohol.

I'm going with!!.. drinking causes drunkenness..

yaa why not
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I heard of people who are happy drunks and people who are nasty drunks. What would you call that? That's not judgement, that's behavior.

this answer question?

Any substance that alters your mood or conciousness is going to effect your thought processes and behaviour. If they didn't, what would be the point in using them?

Yes, you can eat food that you wouldn't normally touch when your drunk. That's how they sell kebabs but you could call that a lowering of inhibitions.

The thing about inhibitions though is that some are quite irrational or are actual impediments and some are things that you wouldn't dream of doing when you're sober, such as shouting abuse at people, or putting a traffic cone on your head.

I know one guy that's so bad when he's drunk that nobody will put up with him but he's an alright guy when he's sober. He goes from crying on your shoulder to picking fights with people. The guy has serious problems and they tend to come out when he drinks. I don't think that's just about losing inhibitions. The drink effects his mood and he can become agressive and one compulsory behaviour that he's developed is that he keeps touching you when he's talking to you when he's drunk.

I think it's a bit of both. Substances like alcohol intensify moods and an obnoxious drunk is arguably just uninhibited but that doesn't really explain how someone can be a perfect gentleman when he's sober and then a raving maniac after a few drinks. It's more that some people can't tolerate certain substances. Sometimes they can initially and enjoy using them but that can change. There are people, for example, that develop psychosis or neurotic symptoms after using a substance for a long period of time and that goes beyond normal effects like merely losing some inhibitions.

No substance removes or lessens responsibility.
Alcohol will disinhibit brain functions that would normally give a person reservations. That is precisely the reason why some people drink alcohol -- ie. make them feel more courageous.
It does not make you "hide" your character, because reservations comprise your character.
The decision was made to begin with by someone with full awareness. If they do something uncharacteristic or stupid or dangerous because of the "courage" they sought from alcohol, the alcohol is not to blame.

Now if you're talking about a person that had brain damage / mental retardation due to the fetal-induced effects of substances, that maybe a point of contention.

On a different note, psychiatric instability as a result of drugs, like drug-induced schizophrenia, that causes one to do heinous acts, may also be a point of contention. But that is also after the fact of having chosen to take drugs in the first place.