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"Pearl-clutching" is a rather un-HN term to use since it implies a deliberate overreaction. Drunk driving is a significant factor in road safety and based on t
by shkkmo 5y ago
"Pearl-clutching" is a rather un-HN term to use since it implies a deliberate overreaction.
Drunk driving is a significant factor in road safety and based on the numbers for 2019, accounts for over 1/4 of the traffic fatalities in the US. When you consider the number of people who have lost friends and family to drunk drivers, it is absolutely reasonable that there are a lot of people for whom this is a legitimately emotional topic.
I am not familiar enough with the details of this proposal to know if it is a good idea. I do know enough to see that you also seem to be unclear as to what this proposal actually consists of; it absolutely doesn't push for integrating breathalyzers in every car or even in every new car.
One of the issues I see in American Democracy is that people are insufficiently interested in getting their facts straight.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago>"Pearl-clutching" is a rather un-HN term to use since it implies a deliberate overreaction." I genuinely believe this is indeed a deliberate overreaction on the part of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. I see their statements as catastrophizing. >"I do know enough to see that you also seem to be unclear as to what this proposal actually consists of; it absolutely doesn't push for integrating breathalyzers in every car or even in every new car." This is one of the hazards of vaguely worded laws crammed into pass-or-die reconciliation bills. We really have no idea how to satisfy this now that it is codified into law. It might just be nothing, or it could be something intrusive. I doubt Congress will go back and pass a new law or amend this because of all the gridlock.