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[QUOTE="robwbright, post: 1200470, member: 60515"] I agree, she should not have been given and should not be given preferential treatment. I strongly dislike the woman and I DO NOT think she's attractive. She looks like a mouse to me. However, I question any law which pre-emptively takes away a person's freedom when that person has not caused any injury to another person. 600+ people drive under the influence for each person that is pulled over. If you injury or kill another person due to losing control of your vehicle - for whatever reason that is your fault - you should be subject to severe criminal and civil penalties. However, arresting people and forcing them to do jail time - for whatever reason - when they have not injured another person is stupid and tyrranical. You might want to read this - selective quotes below. . .: Legalize Drunk Driving [url]http://www.mises.org/story/2343[/url] "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. [B]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.[/B] Despite the propaganda, what's being criminalized in the case of drunk driving is not the probability that a person driving will get into an accident but the fact of the blood-alcohol content itself. A drunk driver is humiliated and destroyed even when he hasn't done any harm. There are many factors that cause a person to drive poorly. You may have sore muscles after a weight-lifting session and have slow reactions. You could be sleepy. You could be in a bad mood, or angry after a fight with your spouse. [B]Should the government be allowed to administer anger tests, tiredness tests, or soreness tests?[/B] That is the very next step, and don't be surprised when Congress starts to examine this question. We need to put a stop to this whole trend now. Drunk driving should be legalized. And please don't write me to say: "I am offended by your insensitivity because my mother was killed by a drunk driver." Any person responsible for killing someone else is guilty of manslaughter or murder and should be punished accordingly. But it is perverse to punish a murderer not because of his crime but because of some biological consideration, e.g. he has red hair. [/QUOTE]
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