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On a personal note, this is only partly a personal response. I drink plenty, and get drunk with reasonable frequency. But I rarely do anything while drunk that I regret even a little, and only once or twice have I done anything I really regretted.
The idea that you should hold someone responsible for whatever they do while drunk seems to suppose that being drunk shows you how a person really is. But this view depends on the dubious proposition that who a person really is is their subconscious, and their conscious is merely a facade. It seems more reasonable to suppose that a person is some combination of their conscious and subconscious lives. So, an example. If you tend to be a bit rude when you're drunk, but are the epitome of politeness when you're sober, which one is your true self?
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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