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You're gonna wear a bit of a mask with everyone, whether you're aware of it or not. That doesn't mean you're not yourself, you're just yourself in a particular context.
Ideally, you want a manageable group of people with similar enough interests that the mask doesn't have to be that thick, and there's not so much switching. A lot of casual socializing is in part searching for that group. That's when socializing really becomes enjoyable.
Additionally, intoxicants can make everyone a bit more tolerant of unmasked behavior, which is one reason they're so popular.
The idea that you have to be drunk or high to unmask is silly and shouldn't be encouraged; you can choose to unmask without.
They said “can” not “have to”. You changed what they said and then attacked that.
Explain what relevance even mentioning it has here, then, if not this?
Because it's a fact relevant to the discussion at hand?
A brute force assertion doesn't do anything.
How is it relevant?
It's only relevance is in him trying to encourage it the way I see it; if you disagree, explain the relevance.
The reason to mention it is to explain that people overcome this hurdle in many different ways, one of them is intoxicants. So other people struggle with this in the same way, they just have other means to go about it.
It's not meant to encourage drinking, it's meant to tell you that a bunch of people are regularly getting drunk in order to handle it.
That's fine I suppose my major irk is with the idea that you are somehow bound to be masking with everyone, which I don't think is true.
It sure as hell isn't I can tell you from experience, and I don't think that's the point of the comment.
The original comment I was responding to:
It's a pretty firm statement.
??? So why mention the intoxicants at all if you weren't responding to that?
Not what my original comment was about.
You should look in a mirror, Mr Sophist
Not an argument.