Taking Responsibility - Drunk Drivers
Recently there was a Supreme Court ruling in Canada that the host of a party where alcohol is consumed is *not* responsible, if a guest drinks and then drives and gets involved in an accident.
The case in question involved a person who had been seriously injured in an accident that was caused by a drunk driver.
While some people sympathized with this person, who ended up in a wheelchair because of the accident, I do not.
It has become the norm, it seems, to blame everyone and everything possible for any misfortune that befalls one.
Now, in the above case, the drunk driver was most certainly at fault. In fact, does not the whole, entire responsibility of driving drunk fall on his shoulders? Assuming that the hosts of the party he attended did not tie him up and force liquor down his throat, it was his fault that he drove drunk.
While I feel some sympathy for the young lady who is now confined to a wheelchair, I believe that her legal claims against the hosts of that party was completely off the mark.
Place responsibility where is belongs, and no where else.
While MADD is not happy with the Supreme Court ruling, I believe that this was an appropriate judgement.
Trish
May 12, 2006.
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