DUI a victimless crime?
Drinking or doing drugs is done consciously and with full awarness and knowledge of how it affects and impairs ability (especially judgement of said ability...), which is what makes choosing to drive (or operate any dangerous equipment) while being intoxicated - or even just running a high fever or similar - a criminal hazard to your fellow man.
Any act which has a an immediate potential for direct bodily harm, death or material harm of another is an act it is the duty of any freedom-minded person to only perform as correctly and responsibly as possibly. Operating a motor vehicle (a car, not a lawnmower) is such an act.
Because the moment your freedom puts someone else at immediate risk of death, injury or loss, your rejection of the moral obligation of that duty is no different from the governemental or corporate logic of collateral damages.
And we as free and private individuals have no excuse to engage in such behaviour towards one another, do we?
Jul 15, 2022
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