Question:
Would closing bars benefit society on such a scale we would never open them again?
2011-05-31 08:23:20 UTC
I'm just basing the argument on the fact that it would reduce the number of drunk driving accidents by 50% which means it would cut the death rate in half which would mean maybe 20,000 lives. Now weigh the amount of lives on the amount of getting together with your friends and having beers. Then you figure maybe only 1% of society goes to bars, then the bar frquenters are highly outnumbered. This should mean that we could easily close the bars. With bars comes drunk drivers. People in the parking lot sniffing cocaine and smoking dope. It comes with fights in the abrs. Poeple fuckign people they would not **** meaning lower numbers of STDs. It might mean 20% reduction in doemstiv violence. it might mean 10% reduction in dirvorce rates. Now if this was the benefits of closing bars, then it's a good argument to close them.

We have the Cops will tell us if someone was wearing a seatbelt or not, but we need to demand they tell us if someone left a bar who was drunk or a residence. So then we would hear, so and so left Obrien's Pub and we would seldom hear they had left their residence. Is this a good argument? Don't wait for someone in your family to be killed and then argue. The time is now.
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Mrs Invicta
2011-05-31 11:13:35 UTC
1% of people go to bars? where on earth did you get that from!

And if bars were shut you *don't* know that you could halve the death rate of drunk driving accidents, because it hasn't been done so you have no proof that people just wouldn't drink at home or at friends' houses and do the same.



It's a ridiculous idea. If you banned driving you could remove all the deaths from driving... Why stop at banning bars eh ;-)
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2016-12-18 11:51:16 UTC
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2011-05-31 08:32:27 UTC
How do you think organised crime got started in the US? From prohibition. Banning something just makes it makes it just so much more attractive, and there's always someone who will supply what is banned. Why do you think drugs are so popular and endemic? Because they're banned.

I have no interest in drugs, but people should be left to make their own mistakes except where it hurts other people. The only thing you can do about alcohol and drugs is to make the penalties for drink or drug driving extremely onerous. People will always find away to do exactly what they want, and organised crime is there waiting to supply banned substances.
2011-05-31 08:28:45 UTC
It's been tried. It was called the prohibition.


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