"Free to drink alcohol, but only if you don't become drunk." That isn't exactly freedom.
Well put, Junior. Good tagline material.
It seems to me that once you've become drunk you have already relinquished your freedom to alcohol. That's when bar fights start, physical and sexual assaults, drunk driving, etc. It's the age old excuse. "I was drunk; I didn't know what I was doing." An excused used by cheating spouses as often as those guilty of other things. Well guess what? If you freely choose to get plastered in public while in Texas then you just might find yourself arrested because it's against the law there. If you don't like that, use your freedom to speak and petition that gov't to change the law. But don't tell me that through the law you are giving up freedom. You give up your freedom when you allow alcohol to control you.
"Free to drink alcohol, but only if you don't become drunk." That isn't exactly freedom.