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Hello Senior Hyperbole, how are you today? Everyone can be unsafe at any moment doing any number of activities that we may consider “normal” or “excusable”. Yet these things are all dangers and if you’re driving you should be aware of the danger you and other people on the road pose. Yes? That is safe driving. People love to come down on Drunk Driving with this near religious zeal; but they like to forget that many things that perhaps even they themselves have done puts other people at serious risk for injury or death. We look over those all the time. The point was to highlight that there are many dangers while driving, not just DUI. And when people are behaving recklessly, they should face the same punishments. Yet in drunk diving we have a unique case where we punish to some exorbitant extreme and no one gives a second thought to any of these other causes which functionally produce the same dynamic.What other conclusion can one come to? Unless each car has a driving 'chamber' where nobody can talk to the driver, where the driver can not listen to the radio, that cancels out cell phone signal, that they have to blow into a tube before the car starts, that doesn't have a mirror so you can put your makeup on or shave, .... then everyone is unsafe. Right?
So before we start demonizing DUI to such extent, perhaps we can all think upon our own driving habits and consider whether or not we’ve contributed to the dangers on the road through reckless driving before we get on our high horse, stand it on a soap box, and begin preaching exclusively against drunk driving. Perchance we’d all be more safe if we were all cognoscente of the dangers certain activities pose on the road.