• explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    My controversial opinion: once you drive drunk once, you should lose your license permanently.

    You’re an adult. You should know better. You probably do know better. If you did it this time, then you’ll do it again. More people will be killed by you driving than will be hurt by you taking the bus forevermore. I do not care how inconvenient it is for you, you can restructure your whole life around never driving again so somebody else doesn’t have to restructure their whole life around a crippling disability or loss of a loved one.

    These are dangerously selfish people and we shouldn’t feel sorry for them.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      If you reject the possibility of a reform you might as well just apply the death penalty to any crime, because people can’t learn and grow, right?

      Oh wait that’s just fascist rhetoric, whoopsie

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        Driving a car is a privilege, not a right. They might never even serve time in prison. But no more license.

        If a doctor was sterilizing people without their consent, would you have him practice medicine again like the fascists did?

        • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          20 hours ago

          “if you believe that people can improve their reckless and irresponsible behavior, you’re letting mengele win” (paraphrased)

          jesse, what the fuck are you talking about? also,

          You’re an adult.

          reaching the age of majority doesn’t make a boy a man. learning from the mistakes you’ve made is what it means to grow up.

          • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            20 hours ago

            It is a license. You can do horrible things that disqualify you from ever getting that license back. You are not entitled to drive.

            • 0x0@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              19 hours ago

              The notion of you accepting that the lack of a plastic card registered in a database should be enough to stop anyone from operating a vehicle lol, people that dui couldn’t care less about what you feel about licensing anything

              It’s id, not a key lmao

    • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      All driving kills. If you aren’t comfortable with causing death don’t drive.

      Also, at least in Germany, you are allowed to drive at low blood alcohol. Having a small beer with dinner and driving home is fine. Getting blackout drunk and driving is not.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        22 hours ago

        All everything kills. Drunk driving is selfishly negligent, and you not driving at all won’t stop others. And yes I said drunk.

        • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Here it is 0.16% (potentially permanent loss of license) / 0.11% (criminal) / 0.05 % (traffic infraction) / 0.03 % (if stopped and showing signs of not being able to drive safely, criminal!).

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    it’s really interesting having lived in the uk and us. Culturally I’ve observed…

    uk: you’ve had a single 330ml can of 3.5% beer you are drunk driving

    us: you’ve only had 2x us pints (~1 litre) of 7.2% IPA, you are not drunk driving.

    the difference, I think, is public transport

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    3 days ago

    Does this mean I could have been cool if I was drunk driving up through my 20s? Dang. Missed opportunity.

    • night_petal@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      There’s a place near me that is a bar with bumper cars and laser tag. Drunken bumper cars is a blast, but the laser tag sounds like vomit city while drunk.