It was mainly an aside. The point is that stronger drinks generally taste stronger. The only exception I can think of is a Long Island iced tea, so if you manage to mix a drink that is not a LIIT and it is strong without tasting strong, that was an impressive invention. Because I promise you that if you put more than the normal amount of vodka in a screwdriver, for example, it won’t taste good to most people—and they will definitely know it has a lot of alcohol in it. In fact, most of the women I have known over the years will probably get drunk more slowly on such a drink, because they will sip it very slowly if they drink it at all.
Not what I said. What we have to have is an understanding that there is a wide moral range of human behavior that still all falls under the umbrella of nonviolent and legal, from saintly and generous, to decent, to acceptable, to tolerable, to boorish and even despicable. Not everything that is immoral is a crime or a violation of someone’s human rights. In fact, this would describe the majority of immoral actions.
This is a point that appears to be lost on the “enthusiastic consent” crusaders. If they simply held that up as the gold standard, I would agree with them. But they seem to want to criminalize everything outside enthusiastic consent, and I vehemently oppose that project. Sometimes a guy will use slimy and manipulative maneuvers to worm his way into having sex with a woman (a woman who may be much younger and thus naïvely susceptible to his “game” but not legally underage). And then he may talk a bunch of shit to his dudebros about his “conquest” of her afterwards or treat her as a discarded plaything. That makes him a despicable jerk, an asshole—but not a rapist. The appropriate penalty for which is that decent people may not want to be friends with you. Not prison, or being kicked out of college.