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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: DWI Crackdowns
Message-ID: <240@frog.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 12:12:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 12:12:07 1985
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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> 	Sentencing a drunk driver to riding a motorcycle is not smart. I
> have a license for both, and I can tell you that you gotta be sober to drive
> a bike. I got picked off in a car, but if I had to drive a bike, I would not
> have had those last few beers.
> 
> 	But don't construe that as a deterent. If a person was impaired and
> had his choice, he'd choose the car each time since his life would be safer
> and his chances would be better. But if forced, then more people would die
> needless deaths. If you think this is good since it removes another drunk
> from the road, think about it; you're bringing yourself down to the level of
> Hitler in that you are expunging a bad attribute from the "race".
> 
WRONGO, cons-breath!  If I think that it is good for you to kill yourself due
to your own choice, that is significantly different from MY CHOOSING TO KILL
YOU for your own choice.  The first has been going on since the first
self-replicating chemicals appeared on Earth, and I strenuously support its
continuation.

Disease?  What is its infectious agent?  Did you CHOOSE to get that last cold
you had?

A drunk in a car on a highway should be treated with the same courtesy and
respect as a madman with an UZI in a shopping mall.  For the same reasons.


--
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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