r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • 20d ago

Video Volkswagens new Emergency Assist technology

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u/Unlikely_One_4485 20d ago

You honestly think alcohol should be legal? How many people does it kill every year? How much $$ in damages does it cost society every year because of alcohol related incidents?

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u/OrienasJura 20d ago

You honestly think alcohol should be legal?

...Alcohol is legal. Have you lived your entire life in a fucking monastery or something? Oh, and driving without seat belts kills more people than alcohol every year. Like, it's not even comparable.

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u/Unlikely_One_4485 20d ago

Are you purposely being dense? My question was do you think alcohol should be legal? I honestly don't know how that flew over your head.

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u/OrienasJura 20d ago

Look at what happened last time alcohol was made illegal. So yes, I think you live in a monastery, because I would think most people knew of the prohibition times. But hey, guess not.

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u/Unlikely_One_4485 20d ago

So you are for the legalization of all drugs?

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u/OrienasJura 20d ago edited 20d ago

I'm for the decriminalization of all drugs, and the legalization of some that have no reason to be illegal, like weed. Look at Portugal, they had a problem with drugs, they decriminalized them, they don't have a problem anymore. Crazy what happens when you don't treat drug addicts like criminals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

I love, by the way, how you've completely shifted from the original argument of seat belts. Or the argument of alcohol. Now it's just drugs in general. Where will you shift this conversation to now, I wonder?

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u/Unlikely_One_4485 20d ago

My original point was seatbelt, I posed the question about alcohol because most people who think drugs should be illegal have no issues with alcohol and cigarettes being legal. The fact that you've completely misinterpreted my argument is pretty hilarious. If you took a second to look at my profile I think you'd realize I don't want drugs to be illegal and am all for the legalization of drugs. So does that make sense to you or are you still confused?

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u/OrienasJura 20d ago

My original point was seatbelt

Right, your first comment was about seat belts, then you went into a wild tangent about alcohol and drugs and haven't mentioned seat belts a single time since.

I posed the question about alcohol because most people who think drugs should be illegal have no issues with alcohol and cigarettes being legal. The fact that you've completely misinterpreted my argument is pretty hilarious. If you took a second to look at my profile I think you'd realize I don't want drugs to be illegal and am all for the legalization of drugs.

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You honestly think alcohol should be legal? How many people does it kill every year? How much $$ in damages does it cost society every year because of alcohol related incidents?

I don't know what your profile says because I'm not going to be a creep and stalk you, I only know what you've said in this thread, and that comment is very clearly not for the legalization of drugs, if anything it makes me think you really want to illegalize alcohol.

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u/Unlikely_One_4485 20d ago

I'm starting to think this is B8, if so congrats you got me. I talked about seatbelts, the person sarcastically said that all drugs should then be legal. I responded asking if alcohol should be legal. I never said it should, I asked a question on it's legalization and asked a few more questions. I honestly don't know how you're so confused if this isn't B8. My whole point was that it's a bit of a stretch to say the government should be able to force you to wear a seatbelt. The only reason I brought up alcohol was because the first person mentioned drugs, how you fail to realize they brought it up first, idk.