Posted on Feb 11, 2023
People from the 80s react to drinking and driving laws! #crazy #memes #interestingfacts
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DUI laws are a common safety acceptance in 2020s. Back in 1980s, people complained that not being able to legally drive while drunk was akin to Communism.
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I am pretty opposed to DUI laws.
I understand the purpose. I understand the reason. I understand the arguments, and I even understand they serve a public good.
BUT.... DUI laws legislate POTENTIAL harm. You aren't allowed to drive drunk because you MIGHT harm someone. Which is the wrong answer. There are all kinds of things that COULD happen. Based on the legal logic of DUI laws, all men should be castrated, no one should have a motor vehicle license of any sort, and we should return to prohibition.
In this country, with very few exceptions, we don't make potentially harming folks illegal. We make ACTUALLY harming them - or attempting to do so - illegal. DUI laws are one of those exceptions, and they should not be.
(Now, the flipside to this is that inebriation should never been an acceptable mitigating circumstance, and should be seriously considered as an exacerbating one in many cases, at least as long as the person is either knowingly or intentionally inebriated. Being roofied may still be a valid excuse - assuming the individual didn't realize they were out of it.)
But that's just me.....
I understand the purpose. I understand the reason. I understand the arguments, and I even understand they serve a public good.
BUT.... DUI laws legislate POTENTIAL harm. You aren't allowed to drive drunk because you MIGHT harm someone. Which is the wrong answer. There are all kinds of things that COULD happen. Based on the legal logic of DUI laws, all men should be castrated, no one should have a motor vehicle license of any sort, and we should return to prohibition.
In this country, with very few exceptions, we don't make potentially harming folks illegal. We make ACTUALLY harming them - or attempting to do so - illegal. DUI laws are one of those exceptions, and they should not be.
(Now, the flipside to this is that inebriation should never been an acceptable mitigating circumstance, and should be seriously considered as an exacerbating one in many cases, at least as long as the person is either knowingly or intentionally inebriated. Being roofied may still be a valid excuse - assuming the individual didn't realize they were out of it.)
But that's just me.....
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