Come now, children. There’s drunk, and there’s drunk. The vomiting person, sick to stomach, and blitzed in the mind is certainly NOT what the Chazal meant with ad delo yoda. The Poskim describe this in detail, and nearly unanimously. Those poskim to whom we turn for everything, chumros, etc. are among those who proscribe the drunkeness that we find so disgusting. Yet, many of us relish the day we can let the guard down, and get sloshed, claiming it to be a mitzvah. Well, that is tailoring mitzvos to fit with personal agendas. I dare to state that this is NOT kabolas haTorah in any way. If one followed a particular shittah consistently, I might be persuaded to look away at his getting drunk. But the shikrus we notice is unquestionably not the intent of Chazal, not a mitzvah, against the Purim spirit, and a major departure from Avodas Hashem. The Rambam describes this in glowing detail, as do many of the conventional poskim who we follow as our guiding lights.
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