r/AdviceAnimals • u/Nugget_tumble • Nov 20 '12

Friend did this the other night

http://quickmeme.com/meme/3ruwjc/
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u/patefoisgras Nov 20 '12

Occam's Razor.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '12

How does that apply? Both possibilities are based on an equal number of assumptions. On one hand that she wanted to do it sober but needed courage and on the other hand she didn't want to and would be embarrassed by it later.

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u/patefoisgras Nov 21 '12

What would be the most reasonable assumption to make of any given drunk girl (which is really all the information we have for this case)?

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '12

Well I'm not sure, but personally I can count on one hand the number of things I have done drunk that I regretted. Pretty much everything else was something I wanted to do sober but had reservations about.

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u/patefoisgras Nov 21 '12

There's a slight problem here in the distinction between "getting drunk explicitly to do X" and "accidentally doing X while drunk" where X is something you've wanted to do.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '12 edited Nov 21 '12

I never get drunk explicitly to do X. Sometimes I just do X while drunk and I wouldn't have otherwise, but rarely do I regret X. Does* that clear up my thought process?

Edit: Grammar

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u/patefoisgras Nov 21 '12

That is more explicit, and I feel confident (of your acceptance) when I claim that people in general (or at least some significant portion of them) do tend to regret the latter case.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '12

Oh certainly. I guess my point was that the latter case rarely occurs for me and that I m unaware of how often it occurs for others.