A closer look
Spartan warriors engaged in institutionalized bullying of their helot slave population by forcing them to get blackout drunk in public to show young Spartan boys how embarrassing intoxication could be. The militaristic elite treated their enslaved underclass with astonishing brutality, utilizing this mandatory binge drinking not as a party, but as a traumatizing educational tool to enforce sobriety among their own citizens. Rather than just giving a boring lecture on the dangers of alcohol, they opted for state-sponsored humiliation to guarantee their soldiers would never want to touch a drop. It perfectly highlights the psychotic discipline of ancient Sparta, a society that practically invented toxic masculinity and decided empathy was just a sign of weakness to be beaten out of you by age seven
