It's now right up there with smoking. So much for trusting people with personal freedoms. If people aren't taught personal responsibility, then they will be incapable of self moderation. Vicious circle.
I can't help but think back to "It's a Wonderful Life", and how Bert the cop was portrayed. Sure, it was fiction back then, but today? Complete fantasy in a DUI situation.
We live in an analog world, where there are degrees of impairment. But in the eyes of our masters, it's digital. A single drink with dinner is something we all have to worry about now, according to the material that accompanied my latest driver's license renewal...
If you don’t know how impaired you might be - don’t drink! It takes a very few glasses of wine or a few cans of beer to mess up your judgment.
You can easily injure or kill someone. The police are doing their job in keeping drunk drivers off the streets.
If you ran over and killed a child without being impaired, you would feel horrible, even if it was a true accident. If you had one beer, you would always wonder if it could have been prevented.
Not an angel and very lucky I never hurt anyone or myself when drinking and driving.