system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5, how can we in America be charged with crimes if we are intoxicated, but not be able to give consent if intoxicated?

Just seems conflicting.
gpt
You can give consent all you want when you're drunk.  What you can't do is accept the consent of a drunk person.  We often say "a drunk person can't given consent", but this is really a way of informing the person who consent is being offered to that it's illegal to regard that as consent when the individual giving it is intoxicated.