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C.H. > wrote: >On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:03:11 -0600, Matthew Russotto wrote: > >> In article >, >> C.H. > wrote: > >>>Increasing your own risks of being killed is completely acceptable. In >>>traffic you not only increase your risk of being killed but the risks of >>>others, and that is completely unacceptable. >> >> On the contrary. Not only is it acceptable, it is unavoidable. By >> merely being there you increase the risk of others. > >Yes, traffic has a certain basic risk of being killed, which you accept by >participating in it. That does not mean that you have the right to >increase this risk several times just to satisfy your desire to drink. Your argument has no foundation; the principle of not increasing risk cannot stand. >> The principle "anything that increases others' risks should be >> forbidden" cannot stand. > >The principle of 'not unnecessarily' (and consuming alcohol when you have >to drive afterwards is entirely unnecessary) increasing the risk does >stand. Nope. That one doesn't stand either. By that principal, all unnecessary driving would be forbidden. |
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