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Should Drunk Driving be a crime? If driving with a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) above a certain limit should this constitute a legal violation?
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1. The various versions of "driving under the influence" generally constitute a misdemeanor (punishable by up to one year in jail).
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2. It is illegal in all states to drive with a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or above.
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3. Driving is the most dangerous activity most people do in their day.
 
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4. For all crashes in 2004, the alcohol involvement rate was 5 percent during the week and 12 percent during the weekend.  (NHTSA, 2005) http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2004/809905.pdf
 
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5. The impact of alcohol involvement increases with injury severity.  Alcohol-involved crashes accounted for 10 percent of property damage only crash costs, 21 percent of nonfatal injury crashes; and 46 percent of fatal injury crash costs.  (NHTSA 2002)
 
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1. Everytime you get in your car to drive there is a %chance you could die, based on your driving and others. Any estimates? If Drunk Driving laws had not been introduced what would this % be (awareness advertising would have dropped the rates)?
 
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=== References ===
 
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving Wikipedia Article on Drunk Driving]
 
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckless_driving Wikipedia Article on Reckless Driving]
 
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    * James B. Gould, "A Sobering Topic: Discussing Drunk Driving in Introductory Ethics" in 'Teaching Philosophy' 21:4 (December 1998), 339-360.
 
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    * Douglas N. Husak, "Is Drunk Driving a Serious Offense?" 'Philosophy and Public Affairs' 23 (1994).
 
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    * Bonnie Steinbock, "Drunk Driving." 'Philosophy and Public Affairs' 14 (1985).
 
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    * James D. Stuart, "Deterrence, Desert and Drunk Driving," 'Public Affairs Quarterly' 3 (1989).
 

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