Re: Odd Question About Alcohol
Here is an interesting tidbit: Most people have heard that placebo/fake alcohol can give intoxication on the same line as alcohol.
Less known studies have shown something else though:
Placebo alchohol will not affect certain inhibitors in the brain like alcohol does, which affect your ability to 'say no'. Researches tested this by comparing people intoxicated on placebo alchohol vs alcohol vs control group on willingness to drive while drunk.
The intoxicated placebo group scored about the same as the control groups on willingness to drive, whereas the alchohol group showed far greater willingness to drive.
What this gives is that alchohol indeed DOES affect decision making greatly compared to a placebo, making your posed question more than legitimate.
As stated I'd have to say a person is fully responsible for the willing actions taken while on an intoxicating drug taken voluntarily. For example I'd say it is very immoral for an airline pilot to drink a lot of alchohol 10 hours preflight, even if it is fully legal (I don't know if this has changed, but before airline pilots usually didn't have intox levels requirements but had 8 hour time limits between drinking and flying instead).
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