Jonathan
2008-06-04 18:35:57
There’s certainly nothing wrong with shaming drunk drivers as a formality. If it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, it’s cheap. There’s no down side, and a willingness to experiment with such penalties says nothing about the effectiveness of other laws.
The best all-purpose solution to drunk driving is to never again license first-time offenders to drive anything larger than small-displacement crotch rockets–anything that puts their head at the point of impact. I’d also think twice about letting them wear helmets. So long as they’re bearing nearly the entire cost of their decisions, I have no problem with them being on the road, except for the risk to other motorcyclists.
Darwin almost always wants to help, if we let him.
