{"id":978,"date":"2009-05-12T08:29:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T07:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2009-05-17T00:41:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T23:41:12","slug":"on-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/on-drunk-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"On drunk driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s something that has been bothering me for a while in regards to drinking and driving<\/a> – a lot of my peers are doing it and nobody seems to care about it. Slovenia has incredible death rate due to people killing themselves in car accidents while drunk and with our driving culture it’s a challenge even if you’re fully sober.<\/p>\n

This is actually quite surprising as we’re usually very progressive thinking bunch that defend our rights at every opportunity – Open Source, Creative Commons, Freedom of information, personal rights etc. So why do we turn blind eye towards driving under the influence?<\/p>\n

Ever wondered why all the advertising around prevention of driving under the influence doesn’t work? Because it’s not acceptable to say to someone – “Hej, don’t drive drunk!”. Even more – it’s actually a bad move to ask someone to not drive as your peers will probably defend the person drinking.<\/p>\n

The point I wanted to make is, if we can go out and defend all the fancy rights <\/em>why do we stop at the fundamentals like drunk driving. We should be able to realize that Ljubljana is so small that you can either arrange alternative of transportation or just don’t drink<\/strong> while driving<\/strong>. At all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lets see if we can have a constructive discussion around these issues and leave aside any specific examples that prompted this. There are too many anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n

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