Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Well, it looks like all of the little kiddies finally got out of bed. Plenty of name-calling and irrational logic going on it what started off as an intelligent discussion. I'll start with thepd since he decided to begin his conversation with name calling.
Originally posted by: thepd7
OP is an idiot, Dain is an idiot, and alkemyst is an idiot.
Dain: alcohol affects you. You don't need a study to tell you that. ANY alcohol affects your body. The reason the limit stands at .08 is because some people are too impaired to drive properly at .08. Can some people drive fine at .08, even .10? Probably, but that doesn't matter.
You know the ****** law, you know how many drinks you have had. I drink and I wait until I am sure that I am below .08 to drive. It is a very simple concept. Don't bitch about MADD because you can't follow a simple law.
Okay, so you admit that some people can probably drive fine at .10 but then you say that that doesn't matter? That's a pretty idiotic statement in itself. It is not against the law to drive with alcohol in your system. It is against the law to drive while drunk. That's why, typically speaking, field sobriety tests are more accurate of an indicator than breath tests since an old alcoholic could pass it while @ .12 more easily than your mom could stone cold sober.
Try to use logic when engaging in a big-boy coversation.
Don't go there man. I respect you a lot, I just happen to think that you couldn't be more wrong on this issue.
What I said is not idiotic for a few reasons. First off, like I said, there is NO ONE that is COMPLETELY unaffected by a .08 BAC. Some are affected less than others but it still remains everyone is somewhat affected. Second, you cannot have a subjective law. You have to make the law for everyone and you need to have a measureable standard for the legal limit. If all you had was field sobriety tests (which is what it seems many of the people in this thread want), so many people would get off who were legitimately drunk because an attorney could destroy a cop on stand who had ever done anything wrong in their job. People would be getting off left and right, and no one wants that.
Lastly, it is SO easy to just make sure you don't drive while at the legal limit. Follow my 3 easy steps on page 2. It is a minor inconvenience at best that has (hopefully) saved thousands of lives.
From everything I have read by you on the forum you seem bright and like a cool guy, but you are dead wrong on this, and that is why I called you an idiot.
