How are people playing this down so much? How would getting piss drunk once a week not be heavy drinking? Ive been drinking that much in uni, not as an adult. Maybe once every few months but not regularly.

I think this post made more people turn that setting off on their phones than the other way around xD

No. If you want to correct someone, please be sure to know your definitions.

Cognitive dissonance is a process inside the observers mind. In this example it goes something like this: ‘I believe all cops are bastards’ vs. ‘I met a cop and he is not a bastard’ -> something doesnt match, thats the dissonance.

My sarcastic comment hinted at the person OP met not being a cop, but the flipside of a human that is a cop in their job and a completely different person in their freetime (like schizophrenics). This makes the second statement ‘I met a cop and he is not a bastard’ untrue and resolves the dissonance.

When you realize that the cop on the job and the person in their free time are 2 separate, almost independent, personalities, the cognitive dissonance goes away.