Jun 03, 2013 6:29 AM GMT
Anyone else get really spooked when interacting with drunks/drunk friends?
Luke28 saidAnyone else get really spooked when interacting with drunks/drunk friends?If I'm sober, yes.
Luke28 saidAnyone else get really spooked when interacting with drunks/drunk friends?
Luke28 saidAnyone else get really spooked when interacting with drunks/drunk friends?
PaulB84 saidIn vino veritas...a lot of people expose their true colours when they're drunk, it can be pretty shocking to hear what some people really think about issues like race, homosexuality etc...but thankfully most of my true friends are jolly drunks
MarvelBoy23 said
I'm not a fan of being around obnoxious drunks. It's gotten very old.
starboard5 saidPaulB84 saidIn vino veritas...a lot of people expose their true colours when they're drunk, it can be pretty shocking to hear what some people really think about issues like race, homosexuality etc...but thankfully most of my true friends are jolly drunks
I don't buy the in vino veritas motto at all. What we think of as "a person" is a complex combination of traits, genetic and learned, and conditioning. You can't pull out one thread and say you know the fabric. Likewise, I would be wrong to judge someone by something they said or did while drunk. Reason, discretion, self-control; these qualities represent a person just as much as any other traits. Just because alcohol inhibits those functions doesn't mean it reveals something more honest or true. A person's honesty isn't worth much in my eyes when it's divorced from reason, discrimination, intelligence, etc.
I've never met anyone who was appealing when truly drunk, not even someone I loved. I put up with them, kept an eye out for their safety, and then listened to the apologies when they called the next day because I knew it was what they would do/have done for me.