Originally posted by: sam_84
1) though it sounds outdated but why don't we ban alcohol just as we want to ban smoking? isnt alcohol more risky than smoking?
What Prohibition just does is adds to smuggling. Also I lived in a ultra conservative country where people had laboratories at home to make liquor and then the religious police would make off hrs visits to keep a check on people, there is no way to control this,(unless we also put religious police on the road in India, oh that would be so much fun. having Balasaheb Thackeray making house calls😉)
The solution is If people want to drink liquor, fine, just put laws around drinking and driving, such as measurable blood alcohol limits. Off course it is pretty much impossible to police that in India with the rampant corruption😉
2) where are our parents? why are they not teaching God's fear, moral values to their offsprings frm childhood?
Actually parents are a very good influence. Parents need to sit down with their children, they should explain the do's-dont's, like if you do drink, catch a cab, we will rather pay for your cab ride than have you sit in jail for the rest of your life, Or drink in your limits, sleeping in your bed is more hygenic than sleeping in the roadside gutter.
Parents just need to understand, It is always better that your child enters the house thru the front door rather than the window
3) are incidents like these the dark side of our modern, non-religious and liberal society? do we have to accept them as 'inevitable evil' or can we do something about it?
If I am not mistaken liquor and smoking has been around in different formats for centuries. It is an individual's choice whether to accept it or not, but we have to learn to live with someone drinking
Anupamaa
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