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If it was your loved one the victim of the 7x you would not think this was puritanical. The drunk driver has innocent victims beyond him or herself.

• arcticbull 7y ago
  Sure but that’s not a rational way of approaching it. The question is wholistic, what is the total harm to society in criminalizing this behavior and enforcing it to such an extent? Humans are dreadful at dealing with things that are unlikely to happen but carry substantial consequence. Case in point, according to Schneier, many more people died because they chose to drive instead of fly after 9/11 (and the increased airport security theater) than died in the actual incident. [1] You could make the same case, what if it was my family in the towers? My heart goes out of course to those people but the decision made as a result was not the right one for society. [1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/08/our_decreasing_toler.html https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/08/our_decreas...
  • tehwebguy 7y ago
    This isn’t about calculating the average life expectancy of everyone based on outside factors. It’s about the individual decision to drive drunk and the risk that this individual decision creates each time.
    • arcticbull 7y ago
      It’s never so clean and isolated when dealing with humans. Life would be much easier if it were.