I received the following via email.
Simchas Torah or just simcha
If on any given Shabbos or Chag (or Monday/Thursday) someone would drink to excess prior to the Torah reading, would we allow them to handle the Torah or receive an aliyah? Would we allow them to heckle the person who received an aliyah? Why do we allow it on Simchas Torah?
If a person showed up at the Siyum HaShas in Madison Square Garden and downed half a bottle(or more) of scotch and behaved in an inappropriate manner would he be allowed to stay in or would security escort him out? Why do we allow it on the the Siyum of the Torah SheBichsav
Just like some Bar Mitzvah celebrations have more emphasis on the bar and less on the Mitzvah it appears that Simchas Torah is becoming more emphasis on the simcha and less on the Torah.