> Why do people drinking heavily make you feel unsafe?
I'm a guy and I've learned through personal experience that being around drunks is the least safe situation I'm ever likely to find myself in. (excluding the obvious exceptions: driving in traffic is of course the least safe situation any of us deals with ordinarily)
Belligerent drunks are worrisome enough even to a person who is fully capable of defending himself and they tend to show up when you're dealing with a group of strangers that could be described as "drinking heavily." When the small but finite risks of dealing with a big group of "heavily drinking" people are usually compensated for with noisy, difficult conversation... why bother? Avoiding the whole thing isn't "pathology" as you described elsewhere, it's closer to common sense.
I'm a guy and I've learned through personal experience that being around drunks is the least safe situation I'm ever likely to find myself in. (excluding the obvious exceptions: driving in traffic is of course the least safe situation any of us deals with ordinarily)
Belligerent drunks are worrisome enough even to a person who is fully capable of defending himself and they tend to show up when you're dealing with a group of strangers that could be described as "drinking heavily." When the small but finite risks of dealing with a big group of "heavily drinking" people are usually compensated for with noisy, difficult conversation... why bother? Avoiding the whole thing isn't "pathology" as you described elsewhere, it's closer to common sense.