The thought of such is actually repugnant.
The majority of the experts I rely upon are also "on the other side" and I always have an enjoyable time debating with most of them.
My favorite happens to be an M.D. who is not only an epidemiologist, but also a Proffesor at the Bostone College School of Public Health and one of the pioneers of the anti-tobacco movement.
Dr. Siegel and I rarely agree on anything, but we both have a great deal of respect for the knowlege of each other on the subject. And that will be the last I will say on this thread on the subject of tobacco, as it is not the topic of this thread.
This thread topic is also not about alcohol abuse, which as you correctly point out, is a major problem. As I stated to ou many posts ago, it is something of which I have first hand experience.
The topic is about what is happening in our society that will cause companies to design their products for the lowest common denominator. I do not drive after consuming alcoholic beverages, why should I have to pay an additional price to purchase a vehicle because there are other idiots that will? Let them pay the additional price for the equipment.
Now that the manufacturers are starting to put these into new vehicles it is only a matter of time before our nanny state government will mandate them.
The topic is about what is happening in our society that will cause companies to design their products for the lowest common denominator. I do not drive after consuming alcoholic beverages, why should I have to pay an additional price to purchase a vehicle because there are other idiots that will? Let them pay the additional price for the equipment.
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I think that’s a horrid development, too.
I still think the country would be much better off with 90% less lawyers. And only 2 or 3 in each legislative house at all levels of government.
I actually deplore the Feds getting involved in anything but defense and trade issues beyond our border—in broad stroke ways.
I think everything else should have been left to the States as the Constitution insisted.
I think the free market is a wonderful thing and quite robust if the traitorous, monopolizing, globalist international conglomerates could be kept in check.
Alas, it’s not to be this side of eternity.
But the biggest problem is in the heart of man. No law can make-up sufficiently for that problem.
I don’t really want breathalyzers in every auto. I actually hate BIG BROTHER fiercely.
But I do like to provoke thought about the problems of alcohol abuse. The problems are so widespread to such destructiveness . . . every opportunity to raise awareness is worth taking, imho.
I do think that irresponsible people mostly have themselves to thank when some social institution starts placing limits on their behavior. Blaming society for saying ENOUGH ALREADY YET is more than a little late and more than a little ill-placed blame.
The blame should have been directed at their individual mirrors long before that late date in the dynamics of things.
The lowest common denominator thing is horrid. Have long railed against it. Hard to get around the social compulsion to operate on that basis.
I grew up in an era and a region where a man’s word was his bond. That’s long gone. Dad has been taken to the cleaners by wealthy selfish arrogant big cats and their shady lawyers repeatedly. Promises were broken; commitments were forgotten and flushed.
Shoot, I remember when the grade school play ground had a huge old tree/log for us to climb all over . . . It, of course got removed later on as too dangerous.
Shoot—life is about bumps and scrapes and even some broken bones. Sure, help those who can’t pay get fixed up. But leave the lawyers out of it. Sheesh.
And suing because of someone being offended by some remark. What idiocy.
/rant