Quote worksopwildcat="worksopwildcat"DJ. I am not looking for an argument with anybody and I hope that people with any illness mental or otherwise receive the treatment and support they need, but come on if getting behind the wheel of a car when you are drunk is "out of your control" then surely you should be in a secure environment where you can not be a danger to yourself or others. Like I've said on a previous post I know a mother who lost her daughter to a drunk driving a car head on into her....I think it is totally unacceptable behaviour.
I wont be contributing to this thread anymore....i think i have made my point....i appreciate it is at odds with what others think/believe and i am genuinley shocked that my view is seen as insensitive.'"
Your view is exactly that, YOUR view and you're entitled to it as much as anyone else. Our views are the product of our own experiences and knowledge of a subject or circumstance and as such they're not completely wrong or completely right.
Views are often polarised by events such as the one you know of and its harder to empathise with the other party in such circumstance.
In the case of mental illness the very last person to realise they're in 'no fit state' is the one with the illness, so getting behind a wheel doesn't seem wrong.
They should be separated from the drivers who just don't give a shjt and arrogantly risk other people's lives because they think they're in control even when they've had a skinfull.
