02-22-2016, 12:53 PM
(02-22-2016, 11:59 AM)Sovereign Nation Wrote: I can only provide my own experience in this matter.
I have always found the need to make drinking and driving illegal to be kind of insulting.
I have only done it one time, and realized how stupid it was almost immediately. To the point of only going about 200 feet, and then stopping, getting out and throwing my keys away (another mistake that was).
I wound up sleeping in the back of my truck, found my keys the next morning, hit up a Burger King and went home for a shower.
I have found that attitude to be the same across all of those other countries. Drink but not to get drunk, and if you do have too much to drink, then you act like an adult, which we are supposed to be when we are allowed to drink, and either sleep it off or call a cab or a friend.
I've been of the opinion that we should lower the drinking age, and maybe up the driving age, and make it so you start drinking before you drive. I feel like starting off on your life with alcohol earlier will allow you to make better decisions with it. As it stands now, you've been driving 3-5 years before you've started (legally) drinking. You think "I've been driving for a while, I can handle it!" when in reality it is anything but the case.
That's just been my opinion on it for a few years. It's more about changing our culture's relationship with alcohol.
