Depends on the situation I think. Someone leaving the bar and driving through town streets likely is going to be more cautious, but once they get to the less travelled more rural roads they likely turn into an asshole driver.
Alcohol affects how your brain functions. It’s a central nervous system (CNS) depressant, which impairs your natural ability to perform cognitive functions like forming memories, making decisions, and regulating emotions or urges.That's not entirely accurate....
Personality Change When Drinking Alcohol: Is It Common?
Heavy alcohol consumption can lead to personality changes. For some, these changes can become long-term.www.healthline.com
They can’t all be prevented, unfortunately. There will always be selfish pieces of shit out there who are going to do what they want, regardless of how dangerous it is to others. Discouraged/reduced? Sure, we could make the punishments for drunk driving much more severe, to the point where some portion of these kind of assholes would think twice before doing it.
Based on what? Until the judge or some kind of expert says that mental health was a factor, this is just baseless conjecture on your part.
No. Ordinary people don’t drink and drive. The vast majority of people have never done it, despite alcohol consumption being ubiquitous in society. If you drink and drive, you’re a selfish piece of shit, period.
That’s no excuse, and you can’t blame the alcohol; refer to my above statement. I’ve been drunk many times in my life, and I’ve never decided to get behind the wheel while inebriated. There is no level of intoxication that will make me think it’s a good idea to drive while in that state. Any time I’ve been drunk, I always still knew what I was doing, and could still make decisions. If you are physically capable of driving, you’ve made the decision to do so. He made a choice.
You're taking the punitive angle with respect to this guy Higgins, and I am taking the general populace angle. We're talking about two different things. I'm not a judge in some court, nor would I ever want to be. Tragedy occurred. How do we react?
That’s the difference between a professionally written article and a comment on a hockey forum. At the end of the day it’s the same outcome.
You think a jackass like this guy would give a shit if you “reached out”? He’d tell you to f*** off. Again, go watch his court appearance - it tells you all you need to know about him.
Yeah, in my city, most of the people I see are going to the TTC or GO immediately after (not that there aren't drivers around, but its likely significantly less than a lot of arenas) or going right into the downtown core for a late dinner or a bar. I'm always amazed at some of the suburban stadiums though, where there is very limited transport options (such as the Bills Stadium). This probably varies by city, and where the stadium/arena is located. Like, I think I can count the amount of times I've gone to SBA or Skydome on one hand by car. Granted, I get there are a ton of arenas that simply aren't located like that or are cities without adequate public transit (or most of the people attending live in the suburbs).
If I was in prison with this guy, I'd tell him what I thought, but what hopefully wouldn't backfire. Like "Who are you? Do you understand what happened." type of thing. Pretty much any court is going to slam down on him for manslaughtering two individuals.
I changed majority to amount.You think the vast majority of people are not sober behind the wheel?
You think the vast majority of people are not sober behind the wheel?
Are you sure you don't want to get all indignant and start a big fight? Nobody says "my bad" on the internet.
First thing they’ve done right since 94
