Sunday, August 14, 2005

MADD and dangerous

Recently some parents were charged with serving alcohol to their teenager and friends, see here for report and here from the washington post. The local MADD chapter welcomed the charges even though the parents prevented the teens from driving.

My prospals for reducing drunk driving without descending into some sort of neo-prohibitionist dreamland.
  • Drop drinking age to 18. (Teenagers binge drink when they can't legally buy booze.)
  • Raise driving age to 21. (Teenagers can't drink and drive if they can't drive.)
  • Double the price of gas. (Reduces driving)
  • Double transit funding. (Reduces need to drive.)
The reason why we ended up with prohibition and other crazy moral laws is because women got the vote. Yes it was important and good that half of humanity got the vote. It was bad to encourage the growth of crime empires.

In a related way it is good when fascists, islamic or otherwise, engage in normal politics rather than using their "armed wings". But they are still nut jobs who would vote in policies they would impose violently. Of course can you trust any political party with an armed wing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"The reason why we ended up with prohibition and other crazy moral laws is because women got the vote."

Hear, hear! ( . ) ( . ) should be seen, not heard.

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully." -1st Timothy 5:14

Anonymous said...

There is medical reasoning for the drinking age set to 21 (regarding brain development and age) but it's anecdotal at best. Rooted in sound science, but not in practice. It seems to work alright in other areas of the world, but why would we want to be like them? They're socialists.