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Do perfectly good people sometimes go to jail for vehicular manslaughter?

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If you live in a city and don't have a car and your primary means of transportation are walking/public transportation and you're taking the
HIGH HORSE approach here with others you need to CALM DOWN.

When you have little to no opportunities to drive drunk then it's very easy to talk down to those that do.


Anyway, as far as the question goes..,..

Perfectly normal, good people have brief moments of poor judgement all the time.

If you drive home from a bar after having 4 beers in 3 hours and a homeless person darts off the median right in front of your vehicle you are unlucky. Not a bad person.
 
Daft
If you live in a city and don't have a car and your primary means of transportation are walking/public transportation and you're taking the
HIGH HORSE approach here with others you need to CALM DOWN.

When you have little to no opportunities to drive drunk then it's very easy to talk down to those that do.
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The lesson here is pretty obvious.

If you're going to drink, don't be a suburbanite.
 
Daft
If you live in a city and don't have a car and your primary means of transportation are walking/public transportation and you're taking the
HIGH HORSE approach here with others you need to CALM DOWN.

When you have little to no opportunities to drive drunk then it's very easy to talk down to those that do.


Anyway, as far as the question goes..,..

Perfectly normal, good people have brief moments of poor judgement all the time.

If you drive home from a bar after having 4 beers in 3 hours and a homeless person darts off the median right in front of your vehicle you are unlucky. Not a bad person.
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Make arrangements for transportation. Or maybe it's because your fucked up country spends more money on providing Israel with cluster bombs than it does on a decent public transportation infrastructure.

GAME. SET. MATCH.

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Unfortunately, the question is what convenience is worth relative to the risk if harm or death to human life, yours or someone elses? It sounds flippant but it's true. I doubt anyone here regards human life so sacred they would endorse zero tolerance.

I think the state does a good job at pegging the reasonable balance at a .08 BAC, reasonable balance being the key phrase in this entire discussion. Over .08 = bad person.
 
Daft
If you live in a city and don't have a car and your primary means of transportation are walking/public transportation and you're taking the
HIGH HORSE approach here with others you need to CALM DOWN.

When you have little to no opportunities to drive drunk then it's very easy to talk down to those that do.


Anyway, as far as the question goes..,..

Perfectly normal, good people have brief moments of poor judgement all the time.

If you drive home from a bar after having 4 beers in 3 hours and a homeless person darts off the median right in front of your vehicle you are unlucky. Not a bad person.
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What if a married father with young kids crosses the street at a crosswalk and you hit him with your car after drinking 4 beers? Are you unlucky or is he unlucky?
 
A married father with 4 kids won't dart out into traffic because along with other sound judgement calls he has made in his life, he knows that you first look before you step out into a roadway which is traversed by 2 ton sleds of steel.

Common.
 
If I got into a crash while driving drunk I would be held fully responsible. They don't cover up crashes for drunk cops.

Breathalyzer is voluntary. So are road side excercises. Anyone can refuse them.

You can still get arrested for DUI and lose your DL for a year because of Implied Consent but anyone can refuse breathalyzer and road sides.
 
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