Kaptain Kouta wrote:
jimmae wrote:
Kaptain Kouta wrote:
I don't think anyone expects there to be a zero-drinking policy, but most people like me expect an approach to alcohol consumption broadly in line with community standards.
KK, you're normally a reasoned man, but do you have any evidence to suggest that the function was anything but in line with community standards for a group of men under the age of 30?
Fair suggestion, jimmae (although I don't get where you think I'm usually reasoned...
), but while there is an occasional drunken party which gets out of control - and I'm not necessarily suggesting this was way out of control - but I don't think rollicking booze cruises are the norm in society.
Maybe it's me who is out of line with broader community standards, but I doubt it. That's why it's making headlines again and again.
It's actually pretty par for the course. What made it unusual was the nature of the guests (minor celebrities, no women) and the time of day (which probably contributed to further dehydration).
Take all the women out of an average booze cruise and I put it to you that it would turn far worse than whatever was witnessed on that boat. If it really had gotten remotely out of control, they were on a boat: there would have been people overboard, property destroyed, etc.
The lack of firm evidence, as well as the ability to acquire any, lends to the media frenzy. They love to make that line labelled "libel" quite fuzzy.
Does any one even know if they wrote a retraction with regard to Mitch's 'incident'? The freedoms of the press are quite generous these days.
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