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- From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
- Subject: Re: Thai kickboxing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.095332.23634@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Institutes of Health
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 09:53:32 GMT
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- bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver) writes:
- >
- >/(mary)
- >/My point was that drinking messes you up, to a greater or lesser degree.
- >/If you drink, to be on the safe side, you should assume that it will have
- >/some negative effect on just about anything you do. It will, in general,
- >/assist you in being loud, obnoxious, belligerent, and stupid, but that's
- >/about it.
- >
- >I'm sorry; this is pure horeshit. People (and myself included) drink
- >3 or 4 beers without turning into uncontrollable gamecocks trying to tear
- >each other apart. It may make *you* loud, obnoxious, belligerent and
- >stupid, but that's no reason to assume that all people have the same
- >reaction. The effects of alcohol vary from person to person. Some
- >people are assholes; some get _very_ friendly, others just get sleepy
- >or cry a lot (extreme drunkenness, we're talking about here). But the
- >point is that you seem to think that alcohol is some kind of drug
- >that turns normally rational people into hatchet-wielding maniacs.
-
- No, she is saying that serious drinking diminishes your capacity
- to defend yourself. Alcohol weakens the social inhibitions that
- tend to keep you from doing and saying things that other (maybe
- huge and equally uninhibited) people might find offensive. Your
- reaction time degrades. Your sense of balance gets unreliable.
- Your situational awareness is dulled. You become a much more
- attractive target for the discriminating mugger lurking in the
- parking lot. Etc., etc., etc. I would be the last to tell you
- to stop drinking, but you ar just kidding yourself if you
- imagine that has no effect on your ability to defend yourself.
- --
- Richard A. Drury National Institutes of Health
- drury@helix.nih.gov 31/B3C27, Bethesda, MD, USA
-