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[cladking]

cladking, it's hard to take you seriously. You recently argued that car manufacturers should be forced (via governmental regulation) to add new features in order to reduce less than 120 US deaths per year caused by people who don't look behind them when they put their cars in reverse. Yet, you feel that admonishment and regulations to reduce over 10,000 drunk driving deaths per year in the US somehow equates to holding drunks responsible for all of society's ills? Ridiculous.

Not exactly. It is my contention that the automakers and everyone else should be held accountable. If they are going to trade off 125 lives per year for better "styling" then they should have to pay for every one of those 125 deaths. We all should reassess our tastes if manufacturers care so little about life and we care so much about "style".

It's a societal problem just asletting John Corzine and those who text while driving walk around free while a drunk driver is hjarassed and has their life ruined. We reelect Nagle despite many hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in property damage (which is the exact same thing as deaths) but a drunk who hasn't hurt anyone can have his license suspended and incur huge costs to defend themselves.

We have horribly misplaced priorities. We are a society that has jumped the shark. (at least we didn't need a ramp to jump it though)