DUIs and DWIs
Bottom line for drinking and driving.
There is no excuse. I have had friends and co-workers convicted of this. Nothing good comes from it. I have also driven in the past when I probably should not have. There is no legal questions or ethical delimas about this. Bottom line: No excuses. When you drink you have a legal obligation not to drive when that drinking can in any way impair your driving. Even if your well into your 30’s, drank for the past 15 years, weigh almost 200 pounds and don’t take any medication just one drink of beer can impair your driving. If you are caught driving and charged dui or dwi you are either going to be under or above the legal limit. Either way you are still guilty. If no accident occured and the judge is having a good day and you are under the legal limit, you are still guilty. There are no arguments. It all comes down to personal responsibility. It’s 2009. If you can be made responsible for somehting bad you will. Many cases have accused drivers of dui or dwi even when it was proven that the driver never had a single drop to drink. Some of those cases have even won. You have a choice. If you want to go out and drink, you can either find a way home or drive yourself. No matter what scenerio you come up with, you had the choice. If something bad happens and you can be held accountable somehow you will. Even if an accident occurs 20 minutes before you got in your car, someone will try to make a case out of it. Dont’ try to explain that there is no way to have a good time, or infringements on your personal freedoms. Don’t argue over certain so called “church groups” have too much power. If you drink and drive you can be held accountable. Some layers are really good and some people just have a way of getting out of trouble, but it does not matter. When you drink and drive you are responsible. Bars and clubs, restaurants and other places have proven over and over that alcohol makes money. When money is involved there is nothing else that matters. Don’t blame the servers of alcohol even if they tie you down and make you drink. Their lawyers are bigger and better than yours. Are you getting mad? Do you hate this article? Who cares, if you drink and drive it can be your ass. Look, I drink at restaurants. Sometimes I even push the limit. But when I drive home or wherever, I understand what I’m doing. If I get pulled over, I’m not going to argue. Even someone crashes into a pole and dies, and the family sues me because I was withing 10 miles of the accident, I’m not going to get mad. I’m simply going to get a lawyer and pray I don’t get made responsible, but in the end I know I still might. I had a choice, I made it, and I will live with it.
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Post CommentBaffled
On January 26, 2009 at 9:21 pm
I am stunned by the uselessness of this article. Are you saying drinking and driving is a bad thing? Are you saying that it’s enforcement is arbitrary? Are you encouraging it? Are you saying anything at all? Doesn’t look like it to me. It sounds like you are just copying out everything you have ever heard or thought about drinking and driving without thinking about what it is you are actually trying to say.
There is a difference between legal and moral guilt and it is abundantly clear that you do not understand this distinction. just because a person’s actions meet the literal definition of ‘drinking’ and ‘driving’ is does not mean that their behavior makes them automatically guilty of the crime of drinking and driving (DUI, DWI, whatever). MADD or any other number of MORAL entrepreneurs would have you believe that if you drink any alcohol at all you should be prevented from driving, but the laws Canada (and Im pretty sure most US states) do not reflect this attitude. Instead we find threshold levels and sobriety tests which are designed to separate out those who have ahd to much and pose a danger on the road from those who are within legally defined limits and so are NOT GUILTY of the crime of drinking and driving.
I hate to break this to you because you seem to be so keen on holding yourself and everyone else up to an insane standard of criminal responsibility, but you are just not guilty all the time. If you have a bunch of drinks and you get in to your car you’re and idiot who deserves no compassion. But drinking one beer and then driving home an hour later does not and should not make you liable if “someone crashes into a pole and dies, and the family sues me because I was withing 10 miles of the accident”, because that is nonsense.