” but for someone to say you shouldnt get drunk because you may kill someone is ridiculus. “
Flatbush – with all due respect, your words make me feel that you must be VERY young! I cannot imagine that a mature and otherwise intelligent person would make such an obviously ill-thought-out statement as you did.
You should NOT get stinking drunk (as so many young men choose to do on Purim) if you are going to drive, because you absolutely MAY kill someone, yourself included. You should not get stinking drunk and go out for a walk on Purim night, because another driver may see you come out in front of his car, and if you are too plastered to recognize the danger, and he swerves to avoid you, he may possibly get hurt or killed. You should not get stinking drunk, because there is such a thing as alcohol POISONING, and people who do not normally drink alcohol (and even some who do) have no idea how their bodies will handle unusually large amoutns of liquor. Have you any idea, Flatbush, how many young men (for some reason not too many young women) end up in the ER every Purim? Check with your local Hatzolah and get back to me on that. Above all, you should not get stinking drunk, because THAT IS NOT THE MITZVAH, in spite of what some people who post here seem to think. A drunk is a drunk, and little kids, non-Jews, and I do not need to see any Yid acting like a jerk, being verbally abusive (as I have witnessed more than once in my neighborhood), and doing outrageous and disgusting chilulei Hashem, because they are under the influence and calling that a mitzvah.