It comes down to one simple fact...
The ones causing all the trouble are tossers! And like all tossers, they either:
a) Don't believe they are a tosser, so pretty much have no idea how to rein in their behaviour.
or
b) Don't care that they are a tosser, so wouldn't give a crap about causing trouble and ruining everybody else's night, whether they are sober or drunk!
What makes it all worse is that when something happens, rather than dealing with it reasonably, everyone is treated like a tosser by everyone else anyway.
Personally, if there is trouble, deal with it reasonably, and anybody that can't, deserves to be shot. Reasonable does not mean "they must agree with me" - it means finding out what's wrong, if there's a solution possible, and then dealing with it.
Since we can't even get sober people to act like this, there's fat chance of getting a bunch of drunk people who are highly agitated and already oppressed to do it. Heck, we can't even get our own Law Enforcement agencies to treat people with respect - all they want to do is crack skulls and bundle people in the back of a van.
I've been arrested and cautioned for a drunk and disorderly, just for apologising to someone who I accidentally offended without realising it, simply because people already assumed I was tosser and wasn't worthy of respect. It's ridiculous out there these days.
Blame society all you want, but the people doing the blaming should remember that quite a few of them are the ones that actually made society the way it is today. When you are being a tosser to someone, drunk or sober, because someone else was a tosser to you, you are just being a tosser - it's the classic perpetuation of misery. Where ever you are on the social spectrum - if you are being a tosser, you're just making life difficult for everyone else. Want to fix that - then stop being a tosser!
(, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 16:12, Share, Reply)