I am catching up with posting online my articles.
So today I was looking at the point of drink driving. We all know that driving a car under the influence of alcohol is dangerous and thus we have police strictly enforcing the law prohibiting driving any vehicle ( including bicycles ) after having one or two alcoholic drinks. The obvious reason for enforcing these laws is that alcohol influences motor skills in humans and thus increases highly the risk of making an error ( accident ) while driving vehicle.
Because we are being quite well educated about it thus majority of people today restrain themselves self-willingly from driving cars knowing that they will consume alcohol at the parties or other events in which they participate.
Unfortunately not everybody accepts the common sense and logic ( as well as laws prohibiting drink driving ) and still we have relatively many people who decide to use the motor vehicles after consumption of excessive amount of alcoholic drinks. And the consequences of this behaviour is visible in the number of accidents related to drink driving.
Now... if we know so clearly that drink driving is the cause of so many accidents on the roads then why don't we realise that alcohol is the cause of all sorts of "life accidents" ?
You'll know... we compare easily driving a car to "driving" our own lives. And the same as in the case of driving the car, drinking alcohol increases the risk of committing errors with serious consequences for your whole life. Violence, unwanted pregnancies, work and other accidents, sickness, serious and minor injuries are on the vast list of consequences related to drinking alcohol.
So the question is:
Why don't we do something to reduce effectively the amount of alcohol consumption in our society ?
You'll know... but this is not really about making new laws prohibiting alcohol production and sale because this would be the same as with drugs - they are officially prohibited but still the consumption of them is still very high. This is more about proper education and self-aware and responsible decision about eliminating completely alcohol consumption from your life. Despite the "official" scientific research and data saying they some alcohol is good for circulation and health I know for sure that alcohol consumption is causing a lot of harm and suffering in this world.