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"People drink and drive in America because they have no choice." They always could choose not to drink if they have no choice but to drive. How is that not a

• ericmay 4y ago
  Because you have the wrong premise. It's not "do I drink or not", it's "I have drank, do I drive or not?"
  • uptown 4y ago
    So we seem to agree -- there is a choice.
    • ericmay 4y ago
      I think we disagree because you're saying you can choose to drink or not, but the choice we're talking about is now that you have drunk, do you drive or not? Because that's the actual choice that Americans face. If you're saying that "drive or not" is the choice, then sure we agree. But that's not really a choice because every incentive would be to drive and that's the structure we've built with car-only culture.