I see people EVERY DAY doing this, and especially at almost every stoplight. I wanna break out their window and drag them into the street.
What in Satan's name is so important that you have to respond to someone while driving (usually at an inattentive 10 MPH over/under the speed limit) that you are willing to be severely injured or die over?
If they are at all comparable, texting seems to be worse
Nov 11, 2021, 10:57 AM
to me just due to the sheer numbers of people who do it. People who would never drink and drive will gladly have a whole texting conversation while driving through crowded streets.
their minds. I drove drunk once, wrecked, and was lucky to not have killed someone. But that night, I didn't even PLAN to drive. Was sitting at home, drinking. Driving never crossed my mind. I have a strict one beer limit. And wouldn't. But as one beer turned into 14 or so and a couple of shots, I was sloshed. STILL, never intended/chose to drive.
Then someone asked me to drive them home, only a few blocks away and talked me into it. They were drunk too. Don't even remember the conversation, or driving, but that was how it happened, as I was told.
But my choice that night was to get wasted drunk, and I chose to do that and did, and I paid for that bad choice. I think the choice is to not get blackout drunk. Because after that, you're bonafide stupid. You could knock up a girl, fall and break your neck, or kill an innocent person, or yourself. But as I see it, to this day I didn't make a choice that night to drive drunk. By that time I was beyond being able to make choices. If I fell down some stairs and broke my neck, would that have been my choice?
The CHOICE is not to get pie-eyed drunk where you black out, as I see it. And yes, I hate drunk drivers as much as anyone. Wife's 4yo cousin was killed by one. But find one that chose to kill a 7yo kid, you will find zero chose that. Ask them if they chose to get blackout drunk, you will get an affirmative answer on that consistently. And you should live with the consequences of your actions, blackout drunk or not. But the bad choice drunk drivers make, is to drink enough to drive drunk, or shoot someone, or fall down stairs and break their necks, or whatever else.
Splitting hairs kinda, and for some people they're coherent enough where it is a choice, but that's not universal or an assumption that can be made, but sometimes it's not a choice beyond choosing to get blackout drunk. Doesn't matter as I see it for consequences, but I make no assumption drunk drivers choose to drive drunk. It's like when they give you anesthesia, and those last minutes before you pass out, do you choose to tell the nurse she has nice ####, or the surgeon he looks gay, or spill the beans about having sex with your neighbor's wife? Of course not. If you're sitting in a break room at work and say all that, then yeah, it's a choice.
I have not been blackout drunk since then, except once, in the woods, camping.
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