For stupid friends I sure do have a lot with MDs, JDs, MBAs and PhDs.
Also, not all my friends know each other so I don't know why you're erroneously assuming that all have driven dunk after my friend went to jail. Or do you only socialize with one group of people?
Look. If you get off your high horse this isn't that hard. Drunk driving is wrong. It's bad and can have awful consequences. But all the moral high ground feckers in here are acting as if every drunk driver ever was smashed, coulda barely walk and said feck it i'm getting my car home. People misjudge or just simply make bad decisions. Sure, some are selfish pricks that don't care about others, but not every one that makes that wrong call is a bad person.
The vast majority of adults who drink socially have made the bad call to drive drunk at least once.
Having academic titles and qualifications doesn't mean you can't be a complete moron.
No one is getting on their high horse when they say how irresponsible and dangerous it is to drive after a few drinks, nevermind being drunk, and no one is stepping out of line by saying anyone that does so is a selfish prick, and anyone that has done so, was a selfish prick.
My reading of this is, despite your friend being locked up for killing someone due to what you're writing off as a simple "mistake", you still hop behind the wheel knowing full well that you're over the limit, and are trying desperately to justify it. You can call it a mistake or a misjudgment as much as you want, but at the end of the day, anyone who goes to a bar, club or restaurant, knowing that they have to drive home, in their sober and right-minded state, should be able to go, "you know what, I've got to drive home, I'll pass." If they decide to drink enough to put them over the limit, that's not a mistake or a misjudgment, that's sheer, selfish irresponsibility.
You can try and convince yourself that it was a mistake that put your friend behind bars for killing someone, but I imagine there's a great deal of fear that it could just as easily have been you in that situation, and rather than cutting it out, you keep doing it because, after all, some older people have slower reactions and we don't stop them from driving!
There is also no excuse buying cheap clothes...threatens lifes of Bangladeshi kids...
There is also no excuse eating food from Africa...leads to people starving over there...
Same goes for a lot of metals, minerals, and last but not least oil.
Could go on with this list for ages.
(Almost) every human in the so called first world hurts and kills people from the third world (indirectly).
This moral highhorsing and selective moral in our countries is quite ridiculous. Most people only see what's in front of their eyes. But i guess this goes quite OT. I for one say drink driving is better then regularly buying cheap clothes, from a moral standpoint.
This is one of the most bizarre posts I have ever read. Whilst I agree that there is a huge problem of wealthy, first-world countries exploiting resources and labour from less economically-developed parts of the world, it's a distinctly different and entirely separate issue to drink driving. Additionally, something being worse than something else doesn't mean the latter should be accepted and ignored.
We probably shouldn't ignore the fact that global politics is seemingly moving towards wildly extreme views, buzzwords, blatant lying and outright ignorance replacing actual discussion, policy, debate and facts, and comparatively it's probably worse than drink driving, but given that this is a thread about a footballer being caught driving whilst over the legal limit, it seems entirely logical and sensible that people are, you know, discussing drink driving.
Also, there are plenty of excuses to buy cheap clothes, sweatshop or not, and plenty of excuses to buy food and resources from likely exploitative sources. Poverty and exploitation aren't exclusive to poor parts of Africa and the Middle-East. But that's for another thread.
