Hmmm… I probably didn’t phrase myself correctly if it seems like I was suggesting it wasn’t. I just am working and didn’t have time to look things up but meant that there’s probably no reason to argue if people just look at the actual numbers.
That being said removing more drunk people from the road is definitely a benefit. However, generally the way we manage intoxication and addiction in this country is pathetically messed up. As a kid of someone who spent more on rehab and jail time than my medical costs and the costs of my college education combined (mainly because that cost was near zero because my parents just didn’t spend anything on that because priorities)… we tend to do things in a way that ensures that more people suffer needlessly since jail and fines are our way of dealing with most problems. Since most people are pretty selfish and addicts have an amazingly high amount of complete narcissists in their ranks, we don’t really address the fact that most of our punishments just hurt everyone around the person who caused the original problem. BUUUUT that’s literally a completely separate issue. Because we still have the problem of “yeah but it’s still killing people.”
