I haven’t read all the posts, so if I am repeating what someone else already said, excuse me. We live in VERY different times from the ones when our Gedolim said to drink ad d’lo yada. People didn’t get behind the wheel of a 2 ton vehicle and drive while “buzzed” or worse, fully intoxicated in those days. Horses and wagons don’t count, the horses did most of the driving. But today, you WILL see impaired young drivers get behind the wheel. I once had a UPS delivery man (who for several years dropped my neighbor’s packages off with me when they were unavailable) comment to me that he was really upset because his truck had been rear-ended by an obviously Jewish kid that day (Purim) and the kid was clearly drunk, and so were the other passengers in his car. WHAT a chillul Hashem! He was upset, not only because of the (mild) damage to his truck, but because the boys could have been hurt badly (their car WAS damaged badly).
There is no mitzvah that comes from an aveira, and if these boys are dedicating as much enthusiasm to learning and making the minyan on time as they are to the “mitzvah” to drink (and I am not even sure what exactly that mitzvah entails today), then fine. But then they should stay indoors all Purim and not ruin Purim for all the Hatzolah members and their families.
Oh yeah, and I do not appreciate drunk yeshivah boys throwing up on my lawn.