I have an honest question: what do we, as a society, do about people who drive even though they've already had 20 DUI's? Or have 40 traffic tickets? Or don't have a license or insurance? These people know they're doing something illegal; the ones who have 20 DUI's or 40 traffic tickets know for sure, even if the guy with no license or no insurance doesn't. But it doesn't deter them. So I'm curious, as someone who commutes every day, what I do about this?
This morning, someone I know was in a hit-and-run car accident, and though I don't know the circumstances of the person who hit her, I do know that in the past few months, several children have died in Chicago in car accidents where it later became known that the person doing the driving of the offending car was someone with many tickets, or many DUI arrests.
I genuinely want to know if there's something we can do to stop these people from getting into cars and driving, because as it looks to me, there's not. If someone wants to drive badly enough, they're going to do it. It's obviously a problem. It seems simply unsolveable, though.
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