Inexcusable

[unixronin]

A montage of 20 years of Australian Transport Accident Commission driver-safety videos.

I've never understood why people intentionally get drunk.  Personally, the few times I've drunk too much, I've found it rather unpleasant.  (I tend to find drunk people rather unpleasant on the whole, too.)

But for the people who get drunk and then knowingly go out on the roads and drive while drunk — let alone the ones who do so habitually — I have no words.

It's said Nature recognizes only three crimes — misdemeanour stupid, felony stupid, and capital stupid.  Now, if you want to go out and commit capital stupid, I figure that's up to you.  It's long been a principle of mine that any arguable "right to life" is close to meaningless without an equal right to end your life in the time, place and manner of your choosing — provided you don't take anyone else with you who didn't make a free and informed decision to join you in it.  But drunk drivers go out and make other people involuntary accomplices in their own capital stupid.

And that is inexcusable.