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Originally Posted by barry_smilez20
Might as well play devil's advocate.
Let's get off our high horse, morality police. Are we to say that drinking and driving is definitively more dangerous than sober driving at 75-80 mph on crowded highways? Driving drunk AND driving at high speeds? Yes, of course... but what about driving drunk on 35 mph roads? What then? Especially in regard to fatalities. Which is more dangerous? I know what we are wired to believe, but if we really are trying to protect our fellow American citizens, why not take away the convenience of high speed? Set the max limits at 35-40MPH. I guess it's because we can rationalize one convenience and not the other.
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You're not very good at playing devil's advocate. There are thousands upon thousands of people who drive at 75-80mph safely all the time. As a percentage of all drivers, crashes at those speeds are very rare.
Crashes among drunk drivers, on the other hand, are relatively common. Roughly one-fourth of all fatality accidents in the U.S. involve a drunk driver. So unless you're arguing that one-fourth of all drivers are drunk, then it's pretty obvious that speeding isn't as dangerous as driving drunk.