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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2910880, member: 8988"] I agree. At the end of the day though, we are faced with the fact these people have a marketable commodity in their skills. By all means throw the book at them, if it was them alone, but it's not. As someone said, how many times has the drinking culture left to a disaster for your friends and family. I was lucky enough to see my brother head down that path, and choose another. Every time he or my father staggered in and created chaos, it showed me the pitfalls. I was lucky enough to have had a brother like mine. He was a kind, generous, but also fragile person. He used as alcohol as a crutch like so many others, to hide his shyness and insecurity in the blokey world he inhabited. He had a black belt in judo and was a fair boxer, but the drink saw him mugged twice. He picked fights at work Xmas parties and was only by my intervention he didn't lose his job. He didn't die of alcohol but probably would have, given time. My point is we all know someone like my brother. We can choose to help them, when we can help them, or throw our hands up and say it is too hard. Bennet and others have chosen the first We also need to rethink a culture that thinks young men getting blind drunk on a regular basis isn't a recipe for disaster. Lodge has owned his failings, but what about the people who served him the drinks or his so-called "friends" who drank with him. We make mistakes and live with the consequences. [/QUOTE]

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