You remind me of a funny story from WW2 concerning SS officer Reinhard "Hangman" Heydrich.
Heydrich's recruitment into the Nazi government had been dicey, due to rumors he had Jewish ancestry. The dispute went to the top. After a long private meeting with Heydrich, the Fuehrer decided in Heydrich's favor, declaring him "a highly gifted but also very dangerous man, whose gifts the movement had to retain...extremely useful; for he would eternally be grateful to us that we had kept him and not expelled him and would obey blindly."
One early morning, after getting drunk on the town, Heydrich's ethnic insecurity destroyed a perfectly good mirror. Entering his apartment, he turned on the lights, saw his reflection in the mirror, and, shouting "Dirty Jew!", fired two shots, shattering the mirror.
Ethanol does indeed cloud judgement.
Ha, ha, true. A cop once told me that if there were no alcohol, we could not need half the police force. :-)