So if a guy walks around downtown drunk firing a
Rifle repeatedly, has done this multiple times in the past, it’s okay as long as no oe gets hurt because he’s lucky and or a lousy shot.
I’m a an ER doc, okay for me to come to work plastered or high because I haven’t killed anyone ..... Yet?
The guy should be arrested and fined for disturbing the peace if he is in town. But not charged with a felony.
If you went to work intoxicated all the time, but always did your job correctly,then no one would know any differently. So there would be no victim. Now I realize that is unlikely, in your profession, so your judgement to do so would carry a lot of responsibility.
Don’t mis-interpret me, if someone IS victimized,or harmed as a result of reckless behavior, whether that behavior involves drinking or not, then the person responsible should be held so.
People who go to sleep driving kill other people just as dead as drinking. Several years ago, here in Texas, near me,an oilfield truck driver went to sleep returning home from a fracturing job.He ran over a van and killed 5 people.He was ticketed and paid a fine. Somehow, that didn’t seem like enough punishment to me.But, at what point does an accident become a crime?
An old Alaskan trapper once said “The reason you folks down south have so many problems is that too many of you live too close together, and the friction is causing you many problems”