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Comment: Re:It doesn't matter and doesn't help. (Score 1) 986

Comparing drinking in Europe to drinking in the US is like comparing gun control in Canada to gun control in the US. The evidence doesn't follow the facts. It's a societal issue and can't be framed in the same way. So many people, yourself included, are too busy screaming "think of the children" that the real issue is obfuscated in hysteria. Here's a good way to think about this. You know what they have a lot of in Europe? Public transit. You know what they don't have a lot of in the US? Maybe that is why people drive drunk instead of catching the bus or train like they could in Berlin or Stockholm.

Comment: Re:It doesn't matter and doesn't help. (Score 1) 986

Three of my friends independently had a "drink and blow" party. All of them reported that the "insipid 0.8 B.A.C." was the drunkest they had ever been since back in the days in college. In fact (warranted or not) one of their take home conclusions "if you feel fine, don't worry at all about blowing past .08, you won't, by the time you are past .08 you *know* your are drunk".

So you're lightweight friends can't handle their booze, how or why should that impact how the rest of the real world works? Being responsible is something you have to plan for and if you can't then don't go out or don't drink. Aside from that and that breathalyzers are notoriously flaky, especially the ones regular losers can get their hands on, and can be challenged in court pretty easily.

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