Reason prevails: drinking and driving decriminalized

[John Galt]

[Spider]

I've got no problem with someone having a (singular) drink...with a meal...and waiting an hour, then driving home.

Beyond that, no go, zero tolerance. You get one warning. Second time, permanent loss of driving privileges.

But I'm not in charge, so w/e.


Everyone thinks they are a special snowflake and that they can make the judgment (while impaired, even to whatever degree) on the basis of their own imagined superhuman biochemistry. But it doesn't work that way. Reality steps in and kills 10,000 people every year regardless of whether or not they think there is some specious difference between being "buzzed" and being falling down drunk in terms of reduced reaction times and distorted coordination.

Everyone thinks their unique badassery will overcome until they wipe out an entire family driving home one night.

Simple solution to all of this: Just don't f**k do it.

[jimmyz]

We need to build tax payer funded bullet train lines connecting all outlying towns, villages, and hollers so that the elderly drinkers have a safe way back to their homes. Or at least purchase a van so that we can tote the drunkards to and fro at town council expense. Either that or we make the roads that the drunks will use bumper-car friendly and closed to regular traffic during peak drunk driving hours.

[John Galt]

[micfranklin]

That's true for you John, I mean I don't know, maybe because you have a high tolerance or something, but everybody else isn't built like that.

[Spider]

[exploited]

You are definitely intoxicated if you have five or six beers in two hours. Drunk? Maybe not, but certainly enough to impact your motor skills.

[eynon81]

[Kane]

But...John is:



He can't get drunk. And even if he could, he wouldn't know what it feels like or how to properly articulate the sensation to any of us.

[eynon81]