[SDCBC] Fwd: Sycuan Casino liquor license?

[John Eldon]

I concur with both of you. In a perfect libertarian world, each individual would be solely accountable for his/her own actions and punished accordingly. However, what is, or should be, the role of a host who knows his guests/customers are getting too tipsy to drive home without endangering someone? If Americans would more fully embrace the European "designated driver" paradigm, I would feel much more comfortable about the whole situation.

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Disclosure: Like Jon, I neither drink nor gamble, so it is arguably too easy for me to say "no booze at the casinos."


--- On Wed, 7/30/08, JonIsaacs at aol.com <JonIsaacs at aol.com> wrote:

In a message dated 7/30/2008 10:51:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, serge at issakov.org writes:



I would like to see much stricter Euro-style law enforcement of the

actual offense of drunk driving, perhaps something like losing one's

driver's license for a full year for even a first offense, and prison

for driving after a license has been revoked.  But I think the focus

needs to be on the crime -- drunk driving -- not on legal behavior

that merely partially enables it (serving paid-for or free drinks).



Serge



Lots of different solutions here...  



Since I don't drink and I don't gamble, I am comfortable limiting the availability of alcohol in situations where people are likely to drink and drive.  Until the laws are in place that reduce the number of traffic accidents involving innocent people and drunk drivers, stop gap measures are OK with me.



Jon 


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