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Article #38483Re: The Blameless Society
From: Carter Lee
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:31
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:31
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ZsaZsa wrote: > Oh, OK. I was just taking issue with the fact that the previous poster had > said something about a bartender selling a fully legal product. Alcohol is > not "fully legal" it's is conditionally legal. Bartenders know that they > aren't allowed to serve drunks, just as they know they are not allowed to > serve underage people. By serving alcohol to a drunk a bartender my be guilty (although I don't know how it could be proven) of serving alcohol to a drunk. That does not make him responsible for anything the drunk does afterward. > > > I recognize that it has become popular to pass-off the blame for one's own > > behavior on someone else, but if everyone passes the buck, the problem > never > > get addressed. If you choose to get drunk and drive, no one should really > > take the blame for the consequences but yourself, otherwise it gives > license > > to bad behavior, based on the fact than no one else stopped you. > > If someone sold a gun to someone who was not legally allowed to have one, > are they partly responsible if they buyer uses it to kill someone? That is an irrelevant analogy. In one case (alcohol) you are selling something that a person may legally have while in the other case you are selling something that a person may not legally have. Carter
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