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The "right price"

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John James replied on Thu, Apr 19 2012 12:48 AM

Meistro:
it is obvious that drunk driving is bad because drunk driving kills people

ftfy 

 

Still looking for an answer to my questions:

 

Meistro:
Drunk driving should be banned.

-Who declares this ban?

I suppose you could claim that your answer is "private road owners do"...but again, that's just a ban on access to their private roads.  They aren't declaring "the act of driving drunk is now banned."  Who is making that declaration?  And where does this person/group get that authority?

-Who is going to enforce this ban?

Again, if I drive drunk on my own road, obviously you can't claim "the owner of the road will enforce the ban".  So, where exactly did you answer this question?

-Who is going to stop someone from getting in his car drunk?

where exactly did you answer this question?

 -What's going to happen to him when he does drive drunk and is caught?

where exactly did you answer this question?

-By whom?

where exactly did you answer this question?

-under what sort of justification is this unnamed source going to aggress on this drunk driver?

where exactly did you answer this question?

 

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bloomj31 replied on Thu, Apr 19 2012 9:13 AM

It's not the driving part that kills people btw, it's the crashing part.

Or, to be more specific, the injuries sustained during and/or after the impact of a crash.  These injuries can be quite severe, often resulting in death.

"The extent of the injury depends on the velocity, distance travelled, duration of impact, direction of impact and absorption of stresses by the body or objects struck."

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Zephyr420 replied on Thu, Apr 19 2012 9:48 PM

Sorry this is off topic, but thanks for the encouragement. Hopefully I'll be able to jump in more once I'm finished with finals.

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