![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
For Scott Allie
Jun. 9th, 2008 04:19 pmSo, here's the thing.
An altered state of consciousness is not an excuse. Not remembering it is not an excuse. Calling yourself by a different name is not an excuse.
If I get all coked up and then drink twenty-seven whiskey sours and run over a nun, the onus of that act is on me. It doesn't matter that I never would have done such a thing sober, that I'm repulsed by it, that I was calling myself "Jesselus" at the time, or that I've repressed the memory as hard as I could, or that I never intended such a thing to happen when I first went off on my bender. I am the guilty party.
( Read more... )
You realize you're a Buffy fan when you repeat yourself...
An altered state of consciousness is not an excuse. Not remembering it is not an excuse. Calling yourself by a different name is not an excuse.
If I get all coked up and then drink twenty-seven whiskey sours and run over a nun, the onus of that act is on me. It doesn't matter that I never would have done such a thing sober, that I'm repulsed by it, that I was calling myself "Jesselus" at the time, or that I've repressed the memory as hard as I could, or that I never intended such a thing to happen when I first went off on my bender. I am the guilty party.
( Read more... )
You realize you're a Buffy fan when you repeat yourself...
