The fact is that drinking seriously impairs ability to drive safely in most if not all humans. Thus it should be illegal & should have serious consequences.
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The fact is that drinking seriously impairs ability to drive safely in most if not all humans. Thus it should be illegal & should have serious consequences.
Whether those should be illegal has no bearing on whether drunk driving should be illegal.
Any coaction which seriously impairs safe driving should be illegal & should have serious consequences.
Unfortunately, drunk driving wasn't taken seriously for much too long. That's finally changing, mostly for the better. Other impairments may come to be taken more seriously but nothing is helped by justifying drunk driving.
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Is that to mean that we should all believe you without question, without comment?
He posted the exact evidence you asked for an you totally ignored it.
Alcohol however is so pernicious in its effect and so pervasive in society that is has specific statutes that address it.
BM, So I'm not sure what your position is.
You have agreed that drinking impairs your ability to drive. But it sounds like you are saying .......
Is that correct?
No, he didn't!!!
There are thousands, tens of thousands, of drivers who drive under the influence of booze ....AND NEVER HAVE ACCIDENTS!
Drivers who drink are being unfairly targetted for something that they have NOT done.
Actually the point is their rate of having accidents is significantly increased and in particular their rate of having horrendous accidents .....
No you are being fairly targeted for what you are doing - driving while drunk.
But, see, you can't know that "rate" unless you know the total number of drunks driving on the road!!
Those numbers were given to you and they are available for you to look up, as are the drops in fatalities when drunk driving is reduced.
But like most alcoholics you don't care.
Have another drink Baron.
Or ...
Or eat another burger while I'm driving and reading the newspaper while I shave and balance a cup of hot coffee at the same time as I argue with my girlfriend about where to go drinking that evening.
But, oh, god, please, NO .....NO drinking and then driving! ..because I might have an accident. Oops, wait, I might have an accident even if don't do all those things. Hmm, there's just something wrong with all this.
Yep, I've decided, ....we should persecute drinkers and throw them in jail for what they MIGHT do. That's the American way ....get those bastards!!
Hell, let's do the same to gun owners, too! If there's on gun owner who has an accident with his gun, that means that all gun owners MIGHT have accidents with their guns, so ...persecute those bastards! That's the American way ....get those bastards!!
Baron Max