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Originally Posted by Tiger
For all the people that are made at this I don't actually understand your point. I agree there should be stiffer laws for the idiots well over 0.08, but most of your complaints really boil down to "This effects my pleasure and shouldn't be done". 0.05-0.08 doesn't represent a huge amount of fatalities, but it represents some, and probably a lot of those are preventable with better reaction time etc.
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Yes, this does affect my fun. I'm not going to dispute that. However that 2% rate is a bit of a statistical anomaly. Considering that 60% of fatalities are caused by sober drivers; it would seem that being .05 does not significantly increase your odds of causing a fatal accident.
Don't get me wrong, I don't go out to get up to .07 before I go driving. I know the math for my body weight and I know how to keep myself around .03 or below. This likely won't affect me at all. My problem is with there being no due process, and that they aren't going after the drunks who are doing the killing. This is like trying to tackle the problem with childhood obesity by removing salad dressings from the schools. It doesn't punish the ones who have most of the responsibility; but does punish the ones trying to be responsible.