Celedam wrote:Starra wrote:In which case she should still be aware that she was too drunk to drive
You might be hyperaware of your physical condition
Give me a break. You don't have to be "hyperaware" to know that you're drunk.
but that is not typical of most people.
And what are you basing
that on exactly?
At the end of the day nobody here knows the full account of what happened and we may never know. But we do know she was intoxicated and she caused an accident. That's not innuendo. We also know when we're being bullshitted to. If you've ever had to deal with someone with substance abuse issues, you know that when they spin a yarn that doesn't pass the smell test, it's 99% likely to be bullshit, and that you're not doing them or yourself any favors by giving credence to it. As Carl Sagan famously wrote, "Keeping an open mind is a virtue -- but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out." Here's her narrative:
1) Supposedly had a few mild drinks, slept more than long enough to for that amount of alcohol to be metabolized yet through some mystery woke up still severely intoxicated
2) Somehow completely failed to realize that she was still drunk.
3) Somehow failed to experience any other symptoms of acute renal failure or whatever symptoms one would expect from a mysterious sudden-onset medical condition that would cause one to fail to process alcohol, e.g. nausea, vomiting, etc., such that they would deter her from driving.
4) Coincidentally after experiencing this bizarre medical mystery for the very first time, she has a collision with her vehicle.
5) Coincidentally in this collision she finds herself in a situation where she is unable to pull over as the law requires.
6) Even after few mild drinks, driving the next morning, getting into an accident, waiting to get home, calls cops, finally takes a blood-alcohol test and is STILL severely intoxicated, yet not immediately hospitalized with what would be, if true, a potentially life-threatening condition.
In real life, in my experience, people with super-improbable explanations for appearing to be drunk or high are usually deep into substance abuse and denial about its effects on their life. It's sad and tragic to see people in that situation, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with passing judgment or writing them off. In fact, I don't see anybody in this thread claiming Yossy is an "irredeemable alcoholic," and personally I would strongly disagree with someone implying that alcoholism is something irredeemable. On the contrary at least she belatedly came to her senses and experienced enough remorse to call in the accident. Good for her on that, I suppose. And in terms of "recklessly speculating" I would say to look toward your own speculative "medical reasons" to explain away the unfortunate facts that we already know, that she was well over the legal limit early in the morning, exercised poor judgment and perhaps willful disregard, and injured some innocent people in a motor vehicle collision. This is a much more serious situation than getting caught smoking or holding a boy's hand or sneaking out of a love hotel. Drunk driving is truly wrong, not just "oppressive Japanese society" wrong.