Podcaster Monark, perceptibly drunk on the broadcast in which he defends the existence of a legalized Nazi party, came clean to say that cachaça made him speak the unspeakable.
Last week, the men who beat Moïse Kabagambe to death tried to justify themselves with this: the victim had been drinking too much and, as a result, had become threatening.
They are two lame, tricky arguments to impute the responsibility for acts resulting from human stupidity and evil in the molecule CH₃CH₂OH –ethyl alcohol.
It’s easy to put rape, aggression, cruelty, verbal diarrhea on the bill of cachaça. It has been socially accepted since the discovery of beer and wine.
It can’t be like that anymore.
Without disdaining the harmful consequences of excesses and chemical dependence, it is necessary to reaffirm that substances do not change anyone’s character. They can, and a lot, awaken and stir up dormant or repressed demons – but that have always been there.
It’s not the cachaça’s fault. Not marijuana, cocaine, any drug.
Cachaça does not induce anyone to flirt with ideas that, sober, he considers absurd.
Many people, by the way, drink or take drugs precisely to do and say things they don’t have the courage to do sober. Therein lies the danger. That’s where the shit is.
At the other end, cachaça does not transform a good guy into a super thug who needs several men, a baseball bat and the angel of death to be stopped.
The effect is the opposite: as much as he becomes a bore in wellies (an all-too-common effect), the drunk is weakened in his drunkenness. Any flick puts him to the knockout.
The same goes for those who see the devil in crack, the rotten character in crackers and, in Cracolândia, a den of degenerates. Is it really, my dear ones? Or is society as a whole sick, and these people pay double for it?
Some guys unleash the demons on the bike ride or shooting club. Blaming liquids, herbs, pills, pebbles and powders for the evil that we can’t contain is hypocritical moralism on the rocks.
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