The Consequences of Drunk Driving

             Many people are trying to give the practice of drinking and driving a bad reputation. One can listen to these discrediting groups such as the congress, senate, MADD, and SADD. To be honest, I am surprised that the practitioners of drinking and driving have not yet formed their type of coalition to combat these groups. I am amazed, especially in today's world where there is a committee or awareness group for almost any cause. This is a time to educate everyone about everything they never wanted to be educated about in the first place. Sure, the drunk drivers could even give themselves one of those catchy names that are so popular. They could call themselves DAAM, an anagram for drunks against angry moms, or DAMS, for drunks against mad students, or something comparable, but why waste their lives?
             I think people just fail to see just how rewarding drunk driving can be to the community at large. It carries at least two or three appealing attributes that always seem to be briskly dismissed by these determined groups who are so passionately opposed to its practice. The first benefit that comes to mind is that driving under the influence of alcohol forces every other driver on the road to pay more attention to the task at hand. If the party that is driving under the influence is all over the road, driving erratically and swerving between lanes, it serves simply as a wake-up call to those other drivers who may not have been paying as close attention as they should have been. The spontaneous driving of the intoxicated individual compels his or her fellow commuters to be more attentive while operating their vehicles. If a problem should arise in which someone collides with a drunk driver, does that mean that it is the drunkard's fault? Or should the other person have been paying more attention to his surroundings?
             Secondly, the argument can be made that intoxication makes the drunken person that much better of a driver. In r...

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