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Solid Q zei:

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...The feds have declared that a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent and above is criminal and must be severely punished. The National Restaurant Association is exactly right that this is absurdly low. The overwhelming majority of accidents related to drunk driving involve repeat offenders with blood-alcohol levels twice that high. If a standard of 0.1 doesn't deter them, then a lower one won't either.

But there's a more fundamental point. What precisely is being criminalized? Not bad driving. Not destruction of property. Not the taking of human life or reckless endangerment. The crime is having the wrong substance in your blood. Yet it is possible, in fact, to have this substance in your blood, even while driving, and not commit anything like what has been traditionally called a crime.

What have we done by permitting government to criminalize the content of our blood instead of actions themselves? We have given it power to make the application of the law arbitrary, capricious, and contingent on the judgment of cops and cop technicians. Indeed, without the government's "Breathalyzer," there is no way to tell for sure if we are breaking the law.

Sure, we can do informal calculations in our head, based on our weight and the amount of alcohol we have had over some period of time. But at best these will be estimates. We have to wait for the government to administer a test to tell us whether or not we are criminals. That's not the way law is supposed to work. Indeed, this is a form of tyranny.

Now, the immediate response goes this way: drunk driving has to be illegal because the probability of causing an accident rises dramatically when you drink. The answer is just as simple: government in a free society should not deal in probabilities. The law should deal in actions and actions alone, and only insofar as they damage person or property. Probabilities are something for insurance companies to assess on a competitive and voluntary basis...

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MorGo7h zei:

EDIT: valt mij net in dat die geen rijbewijs heeft. Ma das ook stom eh, uw rijbewijs afpakken omdadde zat fietst... Kunde evengoed met de auto gaan alst toch niks aan de zaak veranderd...

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makila zei:

Men mag je rijbewijs maximaal een paar dagen intrekken dacht ik, als je dronken met de fiets rijdt. Er kan ook een boete volgen voor openbare dronkenschap en eventueel zelfs voor gevaarlijk rijgedrag. Vermits een fiets géén motorisch rijtuig is, gaan de wetten ivm rijden onder invloed niet op. Een fiets(een gewone) heeft immers geen motor. Ik heb al verhalen gehoord dat de politie het toch doet, en je straft nét alsof je met de wagen reed. Maar in feite mag dit volgens de wet niet. Ook rechters hebben hierin al wel eens de foutieve beslissing genomen. Sommige rechters zullen je desondanks toch veroordelen. Dus je moet er toch mee opletten.

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Bontus zei:

29% = 2/7 = Het weekend !

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Commissar12911 zei:

Casino Justitie. Kom draai eens aan onze roulette!

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