Originally posted by Ushgarak
But in one situation you knowingly put yourself in a position where your judgment might be compromised. Therefore you have a measure of accountability that you do NOT have if mentally disabled. This much should be clear, there are large and obvious differences that make your comparison poor.It's the same reason sleeping with a drunk person is not normally considered rape just because said person regrets it later.
As far as I know, with most contract law drink only invalidates it if it is reasonable that a person was so drunk as to not actually understand the contract (i.e. unable to legally contract), not because their judgment was impaired.
After all, if you get blind drunk and buy something stupid at a shop, you may well be stuck with it.
Of course one is willing and one is not but that's irrelevant when your signing a contract, in both cases you are unable to really know what you are doing and actually if you buy something big like a car or whatever and your drunk then you can actually bring it back and demand your money back, all you need to do is prove that you were drunk.
When you're drunk you're deemed unable to know what the hell you are doing or at leas to truly understand the result of your actions and you are therefor not held accountable to the same level you would be if you were sober.
funny....(still on the hypocrisy note)...someone drinks, gets drunk, drives, kills someone, and its all their fault. no excuses
...someone gets drunk, and finds themselves flashing their **** into a camera, and its all someone elses fault
When you go out drinking and bring a car then you know before you even drink the first beer that you are doing something wrong, and that makes it your fault, this case although I agree that it's stupid is a bit different.