Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Why can we not be sober?
In class yesterday, we discussed drunk driving and the professor asked "How many of you have driven under the influence?" and I was the only one that did not raise my hand. Yes, I recognize that I'm at a school where people drink heavily. However, I am continually surprised at how people take social responsibility so seriously with certain things (poverty, the environment) and so flippantly ignore it with other things (drunk driving, sexual activity). Maybe people feel responsible for collective problems but not for individual problems. It's a lot easier to be responsible for something where you individually cannot make a huge difference so the responsibility is diffused over a large group of people. Individual responsibility, on the other hand, dictates major lifestyle commitments which would deny individual pleasure, which is much more difficult than tossing some paper in a recycle box and thinking you've done your part to save the earth.
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That's a chilling indictment. It's such an incredible story it's hard to believe. The rest of the class probably thinks you're just scared to raise your hand and that you're a liar. You might be a liar, but at least that's not going to directly kill anyone like drunk driving. That's amazing. There are certain things I don't think I'd ever do despite my religious preferences and that's one of them. But who knows? Nice post.
Whatever, Run. No one believes you. I've seen you drive drunk. I've been in the car while you're driving drunk! Remember our trip to Vegas when we picked up those dancer chicks in your Miata and we got drunk and went swimming in the Bellagio fountains and spent the night in jail? And the one dancer chick you had a crush on turned out to be a dude who was really a tour guide at the Hoover Dam? And now you can't even look at a picture of the Hoover Dam without losing your cool even though the Hoover Dam is Christina's favorite national monument so she has pictures of the Hoover Dam all over the house? She even bought the collector's edition Hoover Dam dinnerware so you literally have to eat dinner off the Hoover Dam every night?
And Charles was there in Vegas with us but we left him at McDonalds when we picked up those "girls" because he was listening to that BYU footbal game on his portable radio and he didn't want to miss the game? And when we finally got back to him 21 hours later he was still there at McDonalds because he'd run into some Russian tourists and he was talking their ears off about the viola?
And remember we had to take the Greyhound home because you got your Miata impounded because you parked it on the tarmac at McCarran because you were trying to stop Better Than Ezra from leaving town because you wanted them to do a private show in your backyard for you and the OHS debate team even though you'd been out of high school for two years?
Yeah, that was a funny trip.
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