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“Getting wasted” is a goyishe concept, and never, ever was considered a mitzvah. There is a mitzvah to drink as part of Purim simcha, to commemorate the involvement of wine in the miracles of Purim. What we observe way too often is that people want to get intoxicated (a fancy word for poisoned), and do not do so out fear and shame for stooping so low. However, Purim is exploited as an excuse, and this becomes their ticket to drunken oblivion. That is nothing to do with fulfilling a mitzvah, and it should be banned and discouraged everywhere. The Rambam was simple in noting that drunkenness and Avodas Hashem are mutually exclusive.

Whoever thinks “getting wasted” is a chumroh is tragically wrong, and is creating halacha to fit his own desires. How shameful.