RebYidd:
I am fatigued from the constant barrage that drunkenness is somehow a chumrah. You choose to define ad delo yoda as smashing drunk, in disagreement with the overwhelming majority of poskim, including the Ramo, and all the way to the most contemporary, including the Mishna Berura. The mitzvah is not the drinking, and it is ignorant to proclaim it as such. The mitzvah is simcha, as stated clearly in the Megillah. The Chachomim instructed us to achieve that with the aid of drinking. You are confusing the medium with the goal, and that is irrational, dishonest, and simply wrong. Even the Ramoh did not say anything about passing out, just sleep. And your efforts to try to be “frummer” than the Ramoh and the Mishna Berura are frankly revolting.
I am not saying that bochurim above 13 should not drink at all. i am saying that the idea of ad delo yoda, as some commenters here in the CR wish to define it, is a threat to the safety of teens whose judgment is poor enough without the BAC.