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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Well I was involved with both retail at the bar level and the liquor store level. How does it give me more insight? It's allowed me to interact, see and observe thousands of people, and in my experiences alcohol absolutely changes people, from their attitude to their confidence, and you're more likely to see the real version of a person after a few drinks, because their filter is off and they basically are acting freely, without thinking, thus giving you insight as to how they would act if they could freely. Outside of sodium pentathol, alcohol is as good a truth serum as their is.
Ironically to your second point the only time I have ever been kicked out of a club was for breaking up a fight.
Also worth pointing out: He wasn't arrested here, he has been charged with the crime. To me that suggests there is evidence and witnesses.
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Your logic here is really weak. You're saying nothing besides you choose not to believe drunk people you've seen are acting out of character. This does nothing to disprove that people sometimes
can act out of character due to alcohol. While being drunk may loosen inhibitions to bring out a person's truer self in some cases, alcohol certainly can make people act completely out of character sometimes too.
There are numerous health resources out there stating this.
I think most people here have been around plenty of drunk people and your experience doesn't make you more of an expert. You're trying to claim people don't act out of character when drunk. No matter how many thousands of people you've dealt with, all it takes to disprove a generalized statement like you're making are examples to the contrary. I'm pretty sure most people have seen completely out of character behaviour in people they truly know well or have done it themselves. I know personally I've said hurtful things that I'm 100% certain that I had never believed or even thought before.
I'm absolutely positive in all your experience you have seen people act of character a lot of times, but you choose to believe they're not. For the most part with most of your experience being with strangers you're not really in a position to know.
As for Ferland's actions, I don't think anybody is excusing anything he's done because he may have been drunk. I think some people are being understanding about him making a mistake that is common to many people and saying he's not necessarily an a-hole sober
if if he was drunk and made a mistake.