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More than excessive profanity, excessive drinking of alcohol bothers me in novels.
I recently read a book with Navy SEAL characters, and those men drank far too much for a group with access to firearms. I kept waiting for one of them to shoot himself in the foot. |
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![]() For me, the profanity cutoff is "does this actually add to what the character/author/speaker is trying to express or is it simply gratuitous?" |
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As someone who rarely, but sometimes, drinks to excess and has access to firearms I don't see a connection between being intoxicated and increased risk to others. Alcohol in the bloodstream makes reactions slow and reduce inhibitions but "thou shall not kill" remains fairly clear in my mind, lol, along with not even handling a firearm on those rare times when I'm drunk.
Is it so hard to imagine it as identical to not driving while drunk (which I don't)? I wouldn't have a problem with any elite military character (or actual person) getting drunk outside the line of duty. |
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the level of training with not only any military member, but especially the elite forces as well as the level of respect that they have for the damage that weapons can do is a good check on any gunplay. the same goes for simply going to bars. these guys really can kill with little effort without a weapon, do you see that happening very often? (and I don't mean your basic bar fight)
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Only drank 3 beers, then walked back to where he could ride to the duty station. Never picked a fight. Never allowed himself to be goaded into a fight. I was on shore patrol, and got him back to our unit, not Seals, inspite of some dork pretending to be an officer who spent over an hour trying to goad him into a fight. The twit pretending an officer only had 6 helpers. He would have lost. Probably crippled for life. I got a thank you the next day from the Seal and his officer. And an apology from the twit. Who got chewed out, for over 2 hours from what I heard later. rumor has it an Admiral was Not Happy with the twit, and told him so. Did the twit make trouble for us later ? He got transferred before he got the chance. I believe he retired early. Years early. So, no. I am not worried about drunk SEALs. |
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This may be the last time I attempt to make a joke on this forum.
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Personally I don't mind profanity. People swear in real life and for it not to exist in a book loses some realism.
However, I do think profanity needs to be used sparingly on paper. It tends to stick out more on the printed page than it does on TV or in a movie. As a personal observation: The more I write the more I find profanity gets in the way of the flow of the dialog or narrative. |
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