Social Acceptability
I often see comments on social media that drunk driving is socially acceptable and it isn’t. The individuals making these comments may not realize that there was a time when impaired driving was not only socially acceptable but also laughed and boasted about regularly. I would like to share with you the difference between socially acceptable and now.
I used to call drunk driving the only socially acceptable form of homicide in this country.
What socially acceptable is – it is when I learned that the man who killed my daughter, Cari, was still driving on a valid California driver’s license after multiple priors and convictions and a crash the night before he killed her. It is when the police officer informed me that the man who killed Cari would not see any prison much less jail time “because that’s the way the system works.”
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