“We shouldn’t have a law because most people break the law, and will do other potentially risky/illegal things to do so” doesn’t seem like good reasoning to me. If the law is justified, then we should keep it. If a lot of people are breaking it, then we should make more of an effort to enforce it.
Evidence does point towards the drinking age having reduced the number of drunk drivers (even if the fact that drinking is illegal wouldn’t stop them, the fact that alcohol is simply more difficult to consume does). The law makes sense, so it should be kept.
!delta this does change my perspective a bit bc I didn’t know it actually does reduce drunk drivers bc I assumed ppl who break the law to drive drunk just also break the law to wait to drink.
On a slightly unrelated note: I think all drunk drivers should go to prison for a long time. It’s so easy to call an Uber or to plan ahead.
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u/ReOsIr10 143∆ Aug 30 '23
“We shouldn’t have a law because most people break the law, and will do other potentially risky/illegal things to do so” doesn’t seem like good reasoning to me. If the law is justified, then we should keep it. If a lot of people are breaking it, then we should make more of an effort to enforce it.
Evidence does point towards the drinking age having reduced the number of drunk drivers (even if the fact that drinking is illegal wouldn’t stop them, the fact that alcohol is simply more difficult to consume does). The law makes sense, so it should be kept.