If you took a pony or horse of the same weight as those folks in question and poured as much booze down that pony or horse of the same weight what would that pony do?

It would be crazy as they are, then pass out and sleep off the booze.

No one would walk up to the drunken horse and say, "That's the REAL horse - the booze brings out who the horse really is." They'd say, "STOP POISONING THAT HORSE! You're gonna kill it!"

Same when you posion people with booze - its not who they really are - its who they are when they're poisoned with booze.

While its sad they are so rude while kilted, the kilts have no more to do with their behavior than their shoes.

Booze has been convincing people to get naked for all eternity - regardless of what they were wearing when the besotted idea to bare all hit them.

Hopefully, our tendency to feel shame by association is only ours and not the general populus'.

I will keep my ear peeled though, just in case someone shouts at me, "Look he's wearing a kilt, just like those drunken rugby fans."

As mentioned in the OP, the fault is booze.

The association is only ours if we choose to accept it. I don't.