If you could virtually eliminate drunk driving, would you do it?

[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

Fat Elvis'

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OK, poorly worded late at night. There is NOT a causal relationship between driving drunk and swerving into the other lane nor is there a causal relationship between driving drunk and running into the back of someone. There is, however, a strong correlation between those activities: People who drive drunk tend to swerve; people who do drive drunk tend to have slower reflexes. Better?

Your argument regarding seat belts and helmets still don't apply to anything.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Fat Elvis

OK, poorly worded late at night. There is NOT a causal relationship between driving drunk and swerving into the other lane nor is there a causal relationship between driving drunk and running into the back of someone. There is, however, a strong correlation between those activities: People who drive drunk tend to swerve; people who do drive drunk tend to have slower reflexes. Better?

Your argument regarding seat belts and helmets still don't apply to anything.

Nowhere in this thread did I argue about seat belts and helmets, or equate those laws with DUI laws. All I did was point out that we'd been having a similar discussion regarding the willing sacrificing of freedoms in another thread:

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

People are always willing to justify the sacrificing of freedoms instead of accepting that freedoms can come with a price. We were having the same sort of back and forth about helmet and seat belt laws in the Vrabel thread.

As to your correlation argument, there's also a correlation between driving sober and swerving, and there are correlations between all manner of distracted driving and slower reaction times.