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"drinking & driving doesn't necessarily hurt others--unless there is an accident as a result - but until there is an accident -- innocent till guilty of an acci
by beefield 9y ago
"drinking & driving doesn't necessarily hurt others--unless there is an accident as a result - but until there is an accident -- innocent till guilty of an accident while influenced."
Do you agree also with the statement above?
My view is that most of the externalities of drug uses should be managed by taxation, not forbidden. But there are some externalities that require more brutal coercion than just taxation.
- addicted 9y agoThis isn't comparable. The odds of hurting someone else when youre driving after drinking are ridiculously high. If someone is driving after consuming a drug throw the book at them. But if they're just chilling at home that's a completely different matter.
- beefield 9y ago> The odds of hurting someone else when youre driving after drinking are ridiculously high. No. They are not ridiculously high. They are minuscule. "In 2015, nearly 1.1 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. That’s one percent of the 111 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year"[1] Assuming that all the drunk drivers that hurt someone else are arrested and most arrested ones haven't hurt anyone, odds of hurting someone when drinking & driving are way less than 1%. (This is not to imply that I would like to allow drunk driving.) [1]https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impa...