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It is my experience that while sober, you want to do the right things. Make choices for yourself that are the safest, and in the best interest of yourself and others. That’s not always the case with someone who is drunk. They literally lose their ability to judge right from wrong because they’re running on impulses and not reasonable, rational, sober, thinking. Many of these people are called alcoholics. They have what seems to be a medical condition that shuts off their ability to know limitations with drinking. Not everyone is like this, but if you are, you should not drink.

There’s a reason why you’re not supposed to let your friends drive drunk. Because they don’t know any better at the time. Of course it’s an excuse. If it’s an excuse to take your friend’s life into your own hands, then it’s an excuse for behavior that was inexcusable. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but it makes since.

My best friend, and the father of my child killed himself in a one-vehicle drunk driving accident. His front driver’s side tire caught a steep embankment and the car flipped, throwing him from the vehicle 180 feet to his death in a field across from where his car flipped. His girlfriend had asked him to drive home, even though he’d called her to tell her he could not drive. Was his drunkenness the excuse for his accident? Yes. Would that accident have happened if he had been sober? Most likely not.