Girl who downed ten Jagerbombs in two-for-one offer died and brought back to life

That's called sarcasm though - how strange that I as a person with Asperger's am having to explain this to a neurotypical aka 'NT' - this is what we call you)

I was making the point that people must have some kind of vested interest in lessening the evidently major role played by alcohol in this incident and reasoned why would that be?

Probably due to alcohol playing a major role in peoples' lives

it's less tenuous than implying that because I'm overweight I'm about to be a major burden on my local A&E ward!

when you argue with an NT they don't apply the same stringent rules they demand of others back onto themselves - it's infuriating!

like trying to nail jelly to a wall

it seems to me pointless to try and act as if this girl's near death experience is 'nothing to worry about' - it's grossly irresponsible

1. No

2. Yes

How far is society expected to go in mitigating for stupidity?

People are often very stupid and need to learn their lesson in my opinion

One less stupid person on the planet if people die from it

I bet she's still drinking heavily still becuase all her stupid mates will still be doing it and heaven forbid she doesn't follow the herd

People like this clog up A&E for people who deserve to use it

There should be a special A&E funded by all the drinkers - no money in the pot = oh dear no service

That was extremely poorly delivered sarcasm.

Okay, your second and third paragraphs have just contradicted your first. How could it have been sarcasm if you're still claiming people are alcoholics for not blaming it on the alcohol?

Obviously it was extremely irresponsible- I've never claimed it to be otherwise. Anybody who fools around with alcohol doesn't not get my respect. However, the girl most likely had previous health problems- or a long history of alcoholism. However, this one event of drinking ten shots cannot be called the main reason for her heart stopping without sufficient medical history and/or actual evidence.

Don't get me started on drugs!

Let these idiots take all the drugs they want but please don't let me have to hear their parents saying they had a 'glittering academic career' ahead of them if only the drugs hadn't cut them down in their prime

this line invariably makes me want to SCREAM!

Only idiots take drugs

Of the ones I've met

I couldn't possibly be expected to meet everyone on the planet - an absurd proposition that highlights your lack of logic

you are just on a wind up and I'm not feeding the troll any more

look at your first post towards me - completely arrogant and dismissive

and people wonder why people with Aspergers start plotting terrorist attacks when you think you can talk to me like this and pretend you are doing nothing wrong

shame on you and everyone else who thinks it's fun to **** on others you see as not up to your pathetic standards of normality

I totally and utterly reject your attitude towards me!

YOU are the problem here and the sooner people like you are taken down a peg or twenty the better!

She's not the only person to have died from taking ecstasy and the ecstasy made her drink all that water as well so it still caused her death

I can't debate with people who think illegal drug taking is fine as you never get a rational argument

I didn't say illegal drug taking was fine. I think some illegal drugs are safer than Alcohol and Tobacco, for example but they are by no means harmless. My main thing isn't that people should take drugs, more that prohibition of these drugs is harmful because it means that people who want to take drugs don't know what they are being mixed with, it means that the money made from them goes to gangsters who kill each other over them and sometimes innocents get mixed up (take Rhys Jones for example) and it potentially can harm medical research. I read somewhere ( I think it was Drugs: Without The Hot Air by David Nutt) that taking an ecstasy tablet is statistically around as dangerous as riding a motorbike for 6 miles (not very in other words) and there is no evidence to suggest that her taking of so much water was because of her ecstasy use, it was because her parents advised her to stay hydrated if she was going to take ecstasy. I can't be arsed to be dragged in to an argument because you've misunderstood my position and I've been in enough arguments to realise they are a waste of time because neither side convinces the other side so nothing is achieved.

I got to admit, I don't read Daily Mail articles. I only read the titles, look at the pictures and the comments.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2574594/Teenager-18-downed-ten-Jagerbombs-nightclub-two-one-offer-three-heart-attacks-DIED-brought-life-defibrillator.html Should we feel sorry for her? She drunk the alcohol knowing full well what it can do to her, yet she still does it. Is this another sign that Britain is a nation of binge drinkers who are drinking themselves to death?

I've read through all the debate on this thread and I can't say I agree with aeon439 either, but I think it's really unfair that you (and others) have brought her weight into the argument so strongly, particularly when you don't even know her and are basing it on the one picture she shows on her profile (these are assumptions, if I'm wrong about that and you do know her/have more evidence, then I apologise)

I understand the comparison you were trying to make, but aeon439's weight has now been mentioned quite a few times and I don't think it's fair to be so personal.

None of my business I know, but I just felt it needed to be said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2574594/Teenager-18-downed-ten-Jagerbombs-nightclub-two-one-offer-three-heart-attacks-DIED-brought-life-defibrillator.html Should we feel sorry for her? She drunk the alcohol knowing full well what it can do to her, yet she still does it. Is this another sign that Britain is a nation of binge drinkers who are drinking themselves to death?

Bit harsh but some truth in this. However, by this reasoning, ecstasy should be legal. The reason it's illegal is because a girl called Leah Betts took ecstasy, drank too much water and died of water poisoning. Should we criminalise ecstasy because of one person's stupid mistake? Just food for thought.