Thread: I didn't listen
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Old 11-23-2016, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by lovetolisten View Post
I can't let it get any bigger than this. Haven't slept in 4 days over the thought of who I could have killed
Considering that you didn't actually kill anyone, you obviously realize that there is something very wrong, in the moral sense, with driving drunk, especially blackout drunk. There is always the possibility of criminal and civil penalties, but also of debilitating injury to yourself, or to others.

It helps to remember that most grievously immoral acts that people engage in while drinking, are done once already under the influence, usually after the ability to discern between right and wrong has been obliterated. I say this not to discourage guilt, but rather, to redirect it.

If drinking routinely obliterates your moral conscience, so that you can no longer make sound judgements, might not drinking, in and of itself, be immoral? Might not any thoughts of drinking be, in effect, an immoral proposition, to be disregarded on that basis alone?
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