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Originally Posted by Shasown
I hope you keep saying that and believing it when you hit someone.
The current system actually doesnt allow you to drink a lot, that is what most people fail to appreciate, a pint will see an average man under the limit so long as he has eaten a meal within the previous couple of hours however two pints of normal beers and lager(at about 4%) will see him just on or over depending on size general fitness and a lot of other considerations.
And no I dont drink and drive at all. Like today i took my daughter in for shopping and to get her hair cut, it would have been easier to to use the car but because I knew I probably would have a pint or three we got the bus. Its that simple. If I have had a few of an evening and I need to get anywhere in the morning then its taxis and public transport. Its not too hard given the local area.
But I do appreciate the problems of others, dropping kids off on the way to work, no breakfast etc
Obviously themetabolism doesnt put the same amount of alcohol into the system, I never said it did, but at what level would you propose any future blood alcohol level?
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As low as biologically possible.
You've answered your own point imo where you say alcohol affects everyone differently. We're told raw figures, ie units, not all of the other information that goes with it that you need to eat etc. Some people get drunk faster than others, so 3 units will make one person quite tipsy whilst it will keep another stone cold sober. How can you let a tipsy person get behind a wheel? You can't put a solid figure on how much alcohol it takes for a person to be unable to drive and thats a risk the current system has.