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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
How many cases of someone being punished when not warranted is acceptable? Because I suspect that for a lot of people, that number is zero.
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Ideal? Zero. Acceptable? I’m not sure, but as a society we readily accept that it’s higher than zero. If we’re going to be a realist about it, we live in imperfect conditions, and while perfection should always be the goal, should we condemn “good” in the process?
The questions that are more important to me aren’t about the minute possibilities of the intersection of imperfect conditions that causes a completely innocent sober person to suffer extreme drunk driving charges, but whether this has actually helped in BC. I know they recently said alcohol related road deaths has decreased by half since the legislation came in. That seems extremely good to me.
The thing is, we don’t even have to look at this in a slippery slope sort of way. Can anyone point to a statistical increase in wrongful penalties being assessed in BC since this came in nearly a decade ago? Because the reduction in accidents and deaths seems to be there, police actually seem to be catching more drunk drivers, so there’s evidence that this is positive. Where’s the evidence that the sober innocent driver who was falsely accused and had their life altered is anything more than an anomaly?