Drunk Drivers' Rights?

[DinoDoc]

I dont see how food stamps gives Congress the power to decide what we eat and how much exercise we get.

Exercise no. What food you eat? Most definitely. They even have a page set up telling people what they are allowed to buy with the money: http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/mobile/...can-i-buy.html

You do give up a certain amount of control over your life when you rely on government aid to put food on the table. I'm unsure why you find that to be a controversial concept.

[Berzerker]

Ben argued his Medicare paystub gave him the right to decide what everyone eats and everything else from our medical decisions to exercise to watching TV, and not just the people on Medicare - everyone, including you DD.

[DinoDoc]

Ben argued his Medicare paystub gave him the right to decide what everyone eats and everything else from our medical decisions to exercise to watching TV, and not just the people on Medicare - everyone, including you DD.

Is it odd that Ben would stretch a semi-valid point far enough that it snaps?

[Berzerker]

thats how much he hates people who smoke pot, you should read his diatribes about the virtues of collective guilt when applied to other people

[rah]

And I personally don't think those dope smokers robbed him to pay for their pot. They probably robbed him because they thought he was a douche.

[Sava]

Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/08/05/since-marijuana-legalization-highway-fatalities-in-colorado-are-at-near-historic-lows/

There's graphics and stuff or else I would have posted the full text.

[N35t0r]

What about avreage speed? I bet that's at an all time low... Good if you DON'T WANT TO GET THERE, EVER.

[Lorizael]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...historic-lows/

There's graphics and stuff or else I would have posted the full text.

Those graphs do an excellent job of completely omitting any data about whether or not driver fatalities were already going down.

[rah]

In all fairness he did spend almost a whole paragraph saying that there could be many other (more reasonable) explanations.
Without that paragraph I would have disregarded the the entire article.

[Lorizael]

It's true. I just wish people would stop pretending you can extract meaning from a couple data points. On July 5, I saw a local news report comparing the number of murders on this July 4 to the number of murders last July 4. They were down 200%! It was amazing! What was the cause, the news reporters wondered?

[dannubis]

Pot. Obviously...

R² of 1.

[Sava]

It's true. I just wish people would stop pretending you can extract meaning from a couple data points.

The author did not do this and specifically calls out people who did.

I mean, the last sentence...

it still isn’t clear what any of this means for road safety.

[Lorizael]

Yes, but consider the headline of the article and that he bothered to write it at all. He's certainly extracting some meaning from the data.

[Sava]

seems like you're the one extracting meaning


The title is pure fact:

Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows

I don't see "... because weed is legal" anywhere in that title or the piece itself

It's definitely clickbait, but that's another argument

[Lorizael]

Yeah, it's clickbait, and it takes advantage of the fact that people believe post hoc ergo propter hoc must be true because it's Latin.