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Originally Posted by flipper35
I sure wouldn't want to be on the road with someone that just had a case of beer in the last half hour or dropping some magic mushrooms crusing down the highway at 85mph.
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Umm - what's your point? Of course no one wants to see that. What does that have to do with this discussion?
We regulate driving, as we well should. While we don't want to see drunks on the road, I think most could care less if they are home on their couch. We don't want to see folks yammering on the cell phone while ripping down the road, but we don't mind if they are sitting at home doing it. We especially don't like to see folks texting behind the wheel, but standing on a street corner is no problem at all. We don't want some clown driving around with a dog on his lap, but it's plenty fine if old Rover climbs up there at home. There are an endless number of perfectly normal activities that are safe as can be, and entirely appropriate under the proper circumstances that are horribly dangerous when behind the wheel. We don't regulate or outlaw those activities, but we do regulate what one can do when behind the wheel. Pretty simple concept, really, unless one has an agenda so they just pull the "I don't want them driving like that" schtick. Or, better yet, "I don't want my children doing that".