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Given the amount of drunk driving and other Darwin Award efforts that go on, it’s an open question if there’s much critical thinking really going on…
by jleyank 5y ago
Given the amount of drunk driving and other Darwin Award efforts that go on, it’s an open question if there’s much critical thinking really going on…
- jfengel 5y agoThe problem is that most drunk drivers get home fine. If it really were a Darwin Award situation, they'd have evolved out of it by now (as it were). Drunk driving accidents are horrifically common, and yet only a small percentage of the number of people who go out with more alcohol in their bloodstream than is safe. A critical thinker could well assume that it's sufficiently safe to take that risk, rather than the inconvenience of leaving your car somewhere else. That's wrong, but it's a judgment call rather than an obvious failure of reasoning.