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Originally Posted by llama64
Defending someone who drinks and drives is very much like trying to defend a child molester -- at least in my world.
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Get the hell down off your high horse. You ever driven while talking on your phone? Or while texting? Both circumstances have been demonstrated to be more dangerous than driving while intoxicated.
Every single day every person makes choices which put both themselves and others at risk. It's a fact of life. You need to learn to discriminate between poor choices and active decisions to harm other people.
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http://www.healthyontario.com/NewsIt...ewsitem_id=106
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The phone users fared even worse than the inebriated, the Utah team found. There were three accidents among those talking on cell phones - all of them involving a rear-ending of the pace car. In contrast, there were no accidents recorded among participants who were drunk, or the sober, cell-phone-free group.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/dri...cle4776063.ece
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The Transport Research Laboratory found that motorists who use their mobile phone to send text messages while on the road dramatically increase the likelihood of collision.
Their reaction times deteriorated by 35 per cent, much worse than those who drank alcohol at the legal limit, who were 12 per cent slower
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