Monkeytool
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Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: SampSon
I cannot accept that I need some government intervention in my life in order to protect everyone else that can't handle themselves. Natural selection will occur on its own, and YES there will be margins of error that will hurt innocent people. Guess what, you gotta live with the margin of error, no amount of legislation is ever going to change that.Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: SampSon
You people have thrown any idea of personal responsibility out the door.
Preaching to the choir man.What do you have against starving dogs?
Fried chicken and sh!tty beer make a great afternoon.
i think its been proven that people, in general, cant be responsible. there wouldnt be so many alcohol related traffic accidents if we lived in your world
I have personally lost a family member and good friend to an alcohol related accident.
I was 13 when it happened, and it took the life of my 14 year old cousin and two of our friends.
They were out on the weekend drinking and getting high. I'm not sure if they were driving around the whole time, or that they just decided to go joy riding half way through.
Well they decided to take the car down one of the utility access roads that run along the power lines. It was dark, they were probably inebriated fairly well, and they wrapped the car around a pole at around 80 mph. Three of them, including my cousin, died nearly instantly. The one survivor walked/crawled about 2-3 miles on a broken ankle to get help.
Seeing one of your best friends and family members in a casket before they hit 16 was very painful for the family to say the least. Even after that not a single person in my family got up in arms about drinking and driving, or drugs or anything else related with this accident. We all knew that thoes people made a decision and were responsible for their actions. It is very unfortunate that personal responsibility led to their deaths.
No amount of legislation or government intervention would have ever prevented this from happening. No amount of legislation will ever stop things like this from happening in the future. Personal responsibility rests solely on the PERSON and never the government. When you begin to rely on the government for your personal responsiblity and safety you give up everything that comes with being human, and that is mostly free will and the ability to make choices, regardless of how dumb they are.
The last thing I ever need to hear from people is that I don't know how it is to lose someone to drinking and driving. I don't need people telling me how I should run my life.
The accident affected a LOT of people in many families, but there is nothing that will change that or that could have prevented this tragedy.
What are you going to do, ban everything? In the end it all boils down to personal choice, the government has absoltely zero say in that.
Finally, a post worth reading. :thumbsup:
Yeah I didnt read this, way better than my post, that gets 2 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Anyway, beer is hardly the problem, it the person drinking it. If you don't know your limit dont even drink, unless you keep it tro 1 or 2 drinks, I really don't see the need to drink more than 1 or 2 unless your 16 or something.
Since when did the government become such a necessary component to our responsibility, morality, or conscience? Laws are there to hold the outliers within the majority's social governence, not to govern the majority.
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