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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 April 2013 01:33:50PM *  4 points [-]

My impression is that both sides in the argument are using the level of drunkness which supports their point.

The people who don't want drunk = non-consent imagine people who are moderately drunk, who are more likely to say choose sex than they would be sober, and who chose to get that drunk because they want to have sex but otherwise wouldn't.

The people who do want drunk = non-consent imagine people who are very drunk-- unconscious or barely able to mumble and make vague gestures.

Neither side is entirely wrong-headed, though my sympathies are with the second group, since it's pretty common for people to drink to the point of incapacitation.

On the other hand, rules becoming much stricter than necessary happens too.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2013 06:29:40PM *  3 points [-]

My impression is that both sides in the argument are using the level of drunkness which supports their point.

Yes; I also suspect many of them don't even realize it -- simply, the typical example of a drunk person is someone who deliberately drinks in order to lower their inhibitions in the minds of the first group, but in the minds of the second group it's a passed-out person, due to the different experiences of the two groups and generalizing from one example.

(This is an example of a more general pattern, about which I've been thinking of writing a top-level post but kept putting that off.)

it's pretty common for people to drink to the point of incapacitation

I was going to say “is it?”, then I remembered that, according to this article (discussed on OB before BTW), I am from an “integrated” culture and you're from an “ambivalent” one.