Everyone is misinterpreting what the meaning of the mitzvah is. The words seem to say you have to drink until you get drunk, but those are intended for people who only learned when they drank. It was the opposite of today’s drunkenness – it was a way to elevate their avodas hashem, except that they couldn’t get drunk every day, so they would focus on purim as the time to experience the avodah. But for us, who only do things like not learn when we are drunk, it’s the biggest avairah possible.
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