Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rruxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!rruxo!vch From: vch@rruxo.UUCP (V. Hatem) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Survey: Six Pack as unit of measure Message-ID: <155@rruxo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 15:11:27 EST Article-I.D.: rruxo.155 Posted: Mon Mar 11 15:11:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 09:13:56 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 52 about this flame: >Reference: <71@pbear.UUCP> > >> This survey IN NO WAY condones drinking and driving. That is a >> personal choice of you the reader. >This disclaimer looks like an attempt to discourage drinking and driving >without offending those who decide to do it anyway. The intentions may >have been good, but the implications were not considered thoroughly. >>>> FLAME ON <<<< >Drinking and driving: a "PERSONAL CHOICE" ??!!?? NO WAY !!!!! >IF YOU DRINK, DO *NOT* DRIVE !!!!! IF YOU DRIVE, DO *NOT* DRINK !!!!! >NO other choice can be right. >How "personal" is it when some drunk (or drugged, or otherwise impaired) >driver loses control of a car and crushes out the life of an innocent >person???? It is no longer the "personal" problem of the driver. It >becomes the problem of the victim's family and friends. >Perhaps it is also a matter of "personal choice" whether to fire a shotgun >into a crowded room or start a bonfire in a sold-out theater. Maybe, just >maybe, nobody will get hurt, but what sane human being would take such a >horrible chance? >To choose to drink and drive is to choose possibly making your car a >murder weapon. >>>> FLAME OFF <<<< >Yes, I have lost a loved one because someone who should not have been >behind the wheel made the "personal choice" to drive. "Not condoning" >driving while impaired is not enough. Condemn it for the criminal activity >it is, and don't worry about offending people when lives are at stake. >Please, people, either use six packs of your favorite soft drink, or >skip this survey altogether. >Pat Dunkin ( ... !houxm!ahuta!hocsm!pad) let's be real. It's only a joke! :-} (no- I'm not the author, I just know a joke when I see it. Take a few valiums, don't drive, and call UNIX in the morning)