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| Topic | Drunk driver kills 2 after crashing car into child's birthday party |
| legendary_zell 04/27/24 6:05:52 PM #40: | Some of the issues are that we live in an individualistic, car centric, and alcohol centric environments, don't have great access to healthcare, and don't have great support systems for alcoholics, and addiction is very hard to treat.
You can suspend people's licenses, but they still have to drive to get around. Suspending their license doesn't help with alcoholism and neither does being trapped at home, spending time in jail, or losing a job because you can't drive or were in jail. We have a car dependent culture that's reluctant to punish people for crimes they commit behind the wheel for some reason and courts seem reluctant to deprive people of their cars because they know they're probably screwing that person over completely if they live in suburban Michigan or something. Treating the underlying causes is hard and expensive, and in the meantime people have to live and also feel they should be able to do whatever they want. It's all a recipe for disaster. None of this is to excuse people who drive under the influence. I absolutely hate them. But these are some of the reasons you get people with 10 DUIs before their license gets suspended, and then they continue to drive. --- I gotta be righteous, I gotta be me, I gotta be conscious, I gotta be free, I gotta be able, I gotta attack, I gotta be stable, I gotta be black. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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