As long as we allow people to drive cars and drink beer, there are going to be people who drive drunk.
Shaming won’t work in today’s society where public icons like Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton shame themselves daily and make money doing it.
Higher penalties won’t stop the alcoholics as they will still have the desperate need to drink, and aren’t going to worry about being caught, as long as they can get drunk in the first place.
Kirk suggests mandatory dryout and education, which sounds nice, but no one is going to stay sober until they realize that its important to themselves. Loved ones can’t force someone to be sober, what makes anyone believe the government will do any better?
I don’t know if there is any real solution. Honor and responsiblity are gone from the culture, and without those, its very hard to get people to want to be on the straight and narrow. Prohibition would be a disaster, and you can’t keep a drunk from a drink when they are determined.
so unless you want to put every DUI on permanent welfare where they are forced to sit in a bar and live the rest of their lives drunk. I don’t see any solution that will be better than the current disaster. The culture just doesn’t support any system which would stop drunks from doing what they do.
