[BlueStateDepression]

"A just society shouldn't focus energies on punishing someone who does something a teensy weensy bit bad while ignoring people who do things many times worse."

Thanks for considering the loss of my career, my savings, the majority of use in my left hand and arm teeny wenny.

Thanks for considering the addition of titanium to my spine teeny weeny.

Thanks for considering a brain injury causing memory problems teeny weeny.

Thanks for considering 7 herniated discs tenney weeny.

Oh yes, a just society considers such things teeny weeny.

[supercat]

"A just society shouldn't focus energies on punishing someone who does something a teensy weensy bit bad while ignoring people who do things many times worse."

Which is more likely to cause an accident: (1) someone who drives a vehicle while eating a burrito, or (2) a small person who is basically alert who has recently consumed two beers?

The increase in accident risk caused by a 0.08 or 0.09BAC is statistically negligible compared with the many other factors which are routinely accepted. There are many things drivers do which are so much more dangerous than driving with a 0.08BAC that I see no basis for going after the latter.

And who is more dead: the motorist who got killed because a non-drinking driver was practically asleep at the wheel, or the motorist who didn't get killed because a driver--despite having a 0.08BAC, was awake enough to stay in his lane?

[CSM]

Would these damages that you are suffering, be less significant if the offending driver were sober when he crashed into you?

[drlevy88]

How bombed was the fellow who smacked into you?

[-YYZ-]

So, would it make you feel a lot better if you'd been injured in an accident caused by just run of the mill carelessness? Some moron with a cell-phone glued to their ear. Some twit that should never have been licensed in the first place? Some unlicensed illegal? You sound angry and bitter - excessively so.