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From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Legal dwinking a--
Message-ID: <94@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 12:18:28 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.94
Posted: Sun Jan 19 12:18:28 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jan-86 19:44:31 EST
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 26
Keywords: veritas
Summary: the truth will throw you in jail

>	The  only  way  to stop drunk driving is to make the penalty
>	something to be feared. (i.e. loss of licence  for  good  on
>	first  offense,  jail  on  second  offense,  death  on third
>	offense plus high fines for each)		[RINDSBERG]
		     ------------------------------
    It might help to restructure society so it doesn't breed hatred  and
frustration among its citizens.  I think the dangerous drunks are people
who are full of anger, but are afraid to display it EXCEPT when drunk.

    People  who  are  basically  friendly,  but  happen  to be drunk and
driving (like home from a party, other standard excuses)  don't  go  120
mph  and pile into schoolbuses.  They go 15 miles an hour, and pile up a
train of angry followers.  People who  secretly  want  to  be  murderous
desperadoes  get  drunk  and  decide  that's  exactly what they are, and
they're right.  [In vino veritas.]

    The solution is to discover what people are like  when  drunk,  then
use the ferocious ones as organ donors, and to swab out TMI and the Love
Canal.  After 3 generations or so, we should have a  more  docile  human
population,  and  the meek can get back on the highways at night.  ["For
this part of the driver's exam, you must drink enough vodka to  register
.15% blood alcohol..."]
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Oded Feingold     MIT AI Lab.   545 Tech Square    Cambridge, Mass. 02139
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