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The point is that drunk driving is illegal even if you are driving perfectly fine. Hell, being drunk just sitting in a parked, no ignition driver seat is illeg
by xboxnolifes 2y ago
The point is that drunk driving is illegal even if you are driving perfectly fine.
Hell, being drunk just sitting in a parked, no ignition driver seat is illegal in some places.
Not sure how the second one is reckless in this context.
- AnthonyMouse 2y ago> Hell, being drunk just sitting in a parked, no ignition driver seat is illegal in some places. But those laws are controversial for exactly that deviation from the norm, so it can't be held up as an instance of a widely agreed upon law which is uncontroversial to emulate.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoSeems the norm is many places. I think it has been the law of the land for 40 years in California and nobody seems to care. having friend getting a DUI for trying to do the sleep it off instead of driving home seems like a standard coming of age story. If anything, the consensus is we need harsher DUI laws and enforcement.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThere are a lot of poorly drafted laws on the books that people don't care about because the nefarious edge case isn't widely enforced. That doesn't make them good laws, it makes them quietly dangerous laws. Also, in general any kind of "people support harsher X" where X is Think Of The Children-related will be true, but that's a heuristic for discovering bad laws that should be repealed because of the known effect that Think Of The Children rhetoric causes people to support bad laws.