One man's assessment of stupid DUI laws
Here is a very well-done video we found on YouTube which discusses the question of whether DUI laws are rational. The quality of the video production is superb, and the discussion may be eye-opening to some.
The narrator discusses the death toll from impaired drivers as an insignificant number. We couldn't disagree more with that proposition. Even if, as the narrator says, drunken drivers kill fewer people each year than the flu, there is a major difference. Any DUI death is the direct result of somebody's decision. You can point directly to the actions of a human being that took another human being's life.
You simply can't compare death by a virus to a death by a drunk driver, so the analogy fails in my opinion. Nevertheless, if the scenario of the narrator's DUI arrest is accurate (which I find difficult to believe), then the law has gone too far. A person riding or walking a bike while drunk is little danger to anybody other than him or herself. Unless we are going back to the prohibition (which didn't work the first time around), then we need to stop criminalizing drinking through back door methods such as enacting stupid DUI laws.
