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Originally Posted by JDalla
As mentioned earlier ITT, it's really not as simple as "OMG your putting peoples' lives at risk." There is unsafe driving, and there is driving after drinking. The two do not always overlap.
As far as taxis, it's calling the taxi, waiting for it, taking it, paying for it, and then figuring out the next day how to get to your car. (Or doing the whole thing twice, taking a taxi to leave as well.) It's really not always the most practical thing.
Wow. Where do I begin? Alcoholics, dope addicts, pedophiles, selfish/narcissitic/inconsiderate people, most people who've had more than a few years of college and now think they're smarter than the rest of the world, people who can't stand to be told what to do, and arrogate pieces of sh** who who just generally don't like to be told that anything they're doing is wrong or stupid...WILL ALWAYS try to find a way to justify their ******ed decisions. I've never personally lost anyone to a drunk driver, but I know PLENTY who have. At least a dozen. One of my family members actually killed an off-duty police officer and his wife while driving drunk, orphaning their two small children in the early 80s. She got a little over a year in the county jail and 3 years court probation. If you wanna get technical, she's about 5'6 and weighs about 220, I would guess. She had had...3 beers that night.
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Originally Posted by JDalla
...it's really not as simple as "OMG your putting peoples' lives at risk." There is unsafe driving, and there is driving after drinking. The two do not always overlap...
You know, it really is...THAT SIMPLE. Not everything is so complicated. It's funny to me that you and so many others in this thread put SO MUCH EFFORT into learning how to make good decisions at the poker table, but so little effort into just using common sense and making a good life decision. Here's a bit of advise: Don't drink and drive at all. Period. Ever.
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Originally Posted by JDalla
...As far as taxis, it's calling the taxi, waiting for it, taking it, paying for it, and then figuring out the next day how to get to your car. (Or doing the whole thing twice, taking a taxi to leave as well.) It's really not always the most practical thing.
Well, we wouldn't want to inconvenience you, now would we? Let's ask someone who's had their family taken from them whether or not they give a **** if YOU think it's "practical" for a drunk person to take a cab home, instead of driving drunk.
Don't try to calculate the odds of something bad happening if you go w distance at x amount of beers and y body weight having had the drinks z hours ago. Don't try to rationalize how many beers you can have before you're a danger to yourself or others. Just don' t f*****g do it.
To put it in terms you'll understand: Drinking even ONE BEER...and getting behind the wheel of a car...IS ALWAYS...a -EV move.
For the record, texting, talking on the cell phone, browsing the web, eatin' a burger, reading a book, smokin' a J, b**ting off to a Hustler mag, or any other ******ed thing stupid people like to do while driving is also -EV. Anything that impairs your judgment or takes your attention off of DRIVING YOUR CAR is a pretty poor decision.
But I digress. Let the lame, poorly reasoned-out rebuttals and/or berating begin.