From my Realbeer.com email newsletter: "Utah House members unanimously passed legislation that lowers the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) level for a second drunken driving stop to 0.05% for those with children in the car."
Here's my Indefensible Proposition a la Esquire magazine. (No, I am not going to defend drunk driving.) Why are children's lives seemingly worth more than those of adults? Is it because they're younger and have more life ahead of them? In this case, is it because a child can't choose *not* to get in the car with a drunk driver? That makes sense, but this law doesn't: who's to say a drunk driver without a little'un in the car won't hit and kill someone else's kid? And I'm still not sure that's worse than killing someone's mother, brother, friend, or adult son or daughter.
Maybe I'm surly because hundreds of people kill their partners every year, but it takes the death of a fetus to make a wife-killing case into big news.
Am I going to hell now?
Here's my Indefensible Proposition a la Esquire magazine. (No, I am not going to defend drunk driving.) Why are children's lives seemingly worth more than those of adults? Is it because they're younger and have more life ahead of them? In this case, is it because a child can't choose *not* to get in the car with a drunk driver? That makes sense, but this law doesn't: who's to say a drunk driver without a little'un in the car won't hit and kill someone else's kid? And I'm still not sure that's worse than killing someone's mother, brother, friend, or adult son or daughter.
Maybe I'm surly because hundreds of people kill their partners every year, but it takes the death of a fetus to make a wife-killing case into big news.
Am I going to hell now?
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