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Originally Posted by Xerxys
That is why THE LAW IS THE LAW, because it's always right.
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Hmm, and slavery was the law of the land in many places. Always right? How about Jim Crow? Feudalism?
From the other side, there are laws in areas where people are generally self-policing. I don't think it's laws that keep traffic flowing. (Would you start driving on the left on alternate Tuesdays if there were no law against it?) Or, what keeps you from killing your kids? That it's illegal? Really?
I note that many, if not all, of the examples of the horrors of sub-21 drinking given above are of auto accidents. It's interesting that we can simply bracket the carnage that automobiles produce. Why is drink demonised while autos get a free ride? I'll grant you that a few of the people who died in drunk driving accidents might have had bad things happen to them on the train or waiting for the bus, but by and large, with a better transportation system, there'd be far fewer of these sorts of tragedies.
This is not to deny that people choke on their alcohol induced vomit, die from alcohol poisoning, drunkenly walk into the Mississippi and drown, etc. They do. However, i'm not sure the laws are really helping.