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Given all the rah rah rah for morality that I've seen lately, I figure the topic should be broached.

To me, it doesn't makes a difference and that's what's taken me so long to get to it. If kids want to drink, they're going to find a way to get to what they want. Not to mention, I hardly hold the monopoly on alcohol. [ he's getting to his point in a very roundabout way, yes. ] I'd also like to say that there isn't a day that goes by that I don't see at least one person drinking on camera, drunk texting or boasting about their inebriated state in some manner or another. More often than not, they're what I'd consider underage. And I'm not inclined to give much of a shit about where the product is going because I'm not profiting from it specifically in monetary value.

We don't have a set legal system. Each of us are from countries or worlds where the age cap varies or is completely irrelevant.

That being said, my point is: should there be an age restriction on those I knowingly permit into [ hm, no he's not going to say my ] an establishment where drinking and partying could lead to one thing and then another? I've seen an awful lot of preaching about save the children. God forbid we overlook their sweet, virgin eyes. If we're going to be stuck together for an indefinite amount of time, this might as well be addressed to [ huh, okay, what word does he want to use with you assholes? ] keep the peace. Or something like it. So, let's have it.

Don't care, couldn't be made to care or alternatively, open it to discussion. [ he's bored enough to let strangers and friends bicker at him and among each other. ] And if you were hired by myself or my [ other half ] business partner, report.

[ the camera angle lowers like he's done or ready to shut it off, instead he's scratching behind his ear and shifting his jaw to begrudgingly announce: ] Oh, and by the way, for those of you that knew him.. I think it's safe to finally assume that Justin Taylor has gone home. [ or wherever the fuck people who aren't dead but simply gone go, he doesn't say but his condescending and bitter fucking uncomfortable smirk implies. ]

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[This day had to come.]

I've been drinking since I was fourteen. That's stupid.

Libby, you know very well that I hold you in esteem. But are you truly going to hold forth your relationships with controlled substances as exemplary?

...what does that mean.

Do you really think that having been drinking at fourteen was good for you?

I'm fine.

That's not my question. Do you think it was beneficial.

Yes.

How.

I could work.

...I don't accept that.

Edited 2012-08-31 05:39 (UTC)

I had to cope. And so does everybody here, 'kay? It's a way to feel better. You don't even drink, you don't know.

It doesn't help anyone process what happens here. It doesn't help anyone deal with anything. It just makes them...go onto the network and say horrible, nasty things that makes everyone else feel worse.

That's not 'cause they're drunk, it's because they're assholes. And it helps me. I mean--I could've been mainlining heroin or meth or tricept, right? I did those. But I don't anymore.

And I don't even drink that much anyway, so whatev.

[There is definite defensiveness here.]

Good; that means you've not developed any dependency upon it.

You can't make me quit.

I can encourage you to do so.

[Why does he always make her feel like she could actually do better than she is? Libby doesn't think it's fair.]

I don't--Miles. Come on.

...It's not good for you. You know that.

...this is going to sound--

I--think too much. You don't--maybe you do know. I'm too fucking smart. That sounds so conceited, Buddha.

...All right. What of it?

So alcohol slows my brain down so I don't feel like I'm going to explode all the time, 'kay? It makes me dumb enough to function. So I drink and I can just--I can deal with people.

[Spot the contradiction when compared to 'I don't drink much'.]

...You deal with people sober.

...basically just--you, mostly. And Jesse. And James. I don't think you know James, though.

No.

He's wicked awesome. [Can she distract you? Let her try!] I kissed him. And he's not--you know. Against it. And he likes me.

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