Study: 1 In 3 Americans Text And Drive

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130. It is impossible to have a rational debate

with a true believer.

Your example is a very poor one. Why? Because, we as a society have already assessed and recognize the added risks of night time driving. How do I know this? Easy. Headlight and taillights are always required to be in proper working condition. If they are not, then you will be ticketed. If you have eye problems that require no night driving, that is assessed and added to your driver's licence. Night time driving also increases the risks of drinking and driving. Therefore, DUI check points are set up at night more so than during the day. As to setting up night time curfews, please do your research before making such a ludicrous argument. Why? Because every state does have night time driving restrictions, curfews are regularly put in place on night time driving particularly with junior drivers, and graduated drivers licenses exist which limit further still the hours of the day when driving is permitted.

But you know all of this. You are simply wrong on this point. Texting is a risking behavior while driving. Enough so that enough people have been killed that states are now creating legislation to deal with it. As a society, we have assessed the added risk to driving and deemed it strong enough to apply restrictions and constraints on the behavior while driving.

You are indeed a major risk taker and from the sounds of it further, you seem quite a bit anti-social. You are taking a bigger risk texting while driving rather than just driving itself. You consider it calculated and under control. The weight of the evidence against you is that you may not have screwed up until now, but there is a greater likelihood that if you continue this behavior that you will in the future. You value your independence of individual action over your interdependence with a society that deems you actions dangerous enough to control. That text, if it is only one that you make in a single day of 8 hours of driving, you consider to be more important than the risk of the tragedy if you were to wreck while doing said action. No one can predict the future. However, we can make sound, reasonable, and skillful plans for one.

Finally, seriously, you might as well not reply. I won't waste my time further replying to your flawed logic and arrogance. Your freedom to risk texting while driving is not equal to my or others safety on the road. You will never convince me otherwise.

Good day.