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Drunk Driving Is Not a Crime
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| Contributor | James Crews |
| Last Edited | James Crews Dec 08, 2009 02:09pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Mark Crovelli |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 8, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There is a virtual consensus among the American public that drunk driving is an horrific crime that deserves only ruthless punishment. Indeed, the level of consensus on this issue is so unanimous that virtually the only debate that ever occurs with regard to drunk driving revolves around how best to step up enforcement and inflict ever more merciless punishments on people who choose to drive drunk. Few and far between are any substantive criticisms of the idea of hunting down and imprisoning people, just because they happen to have an arbitrary amount of alcohol in their blood.
One of the major reasons why this level of consensus has emerged in recent decades is that the proponents of drunk-driving prohibition have seized the moral high ground. They have accomplished this primarily by portraying drunk drivers as uniquely dangerous and uniquely evil drivers – drunk drivers are the great and deadly scourge of the modern world. The drunk driver is painted as the moral and legal equivalent of a man pointing a loaded shotgun at a crowd of innocent people – a menace crying out for the state to step in and "disarm" (i.e., mercilessly punish him) before he kills or hurts anyone. |
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