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Paying child support to drunk drving victims
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How about no
Sorry, but in my mind, if you drink and drive, you should have to deal with ruining someone's life.
I'd go even farther. Getting into a car while drunk is a choice, so is getting drunk in the first place. That doesn't happen by accident. Whether someone dies or gets hurt because of that is out of your control.
I am for judging by choices and actions, not by random consequences of these choices.
So regardless of whether someone gets hurt, the penalty needs to be as high as if someone got hurt. Because why would you not punish someone just because they got lucky?
Drunk driving is always about convenience or saving money (compared to getting a taxi), so the punishment must be so high, that it's never the cheaper or more convenient option to drive drunk.
Why not?
This is, sort of, already implemented where I live, in that the intoxicated driver is liable for loss of income, temporary or permanent, to any victims.
On the downside, judges tend to err under actual loss, and we don't really have an effective "loss of enjoyment" concept. Such to say someone, who is injured but can continue to work at the same, wouldn't be compensated for things like an injury precluding them from non-work damages; for example a skier victim who can no longer ski due to injuries
How about Elaborate on why you are against it? If you have a really good reason, you may even win some people over to your side.