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I never understood this logic (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 9 months ago (24 children)

And not only is the first part necessarily the worst, but once you’re in the system they make it hard to get back out by throwing all sorts of arbitrary requirements on you to fulfill, with little to no flexibility. 10-week class that occurs right in the middle of your work-day? Fuck you. It all serves to essentially keep you in the system as it keeps on fucking with your life. Not to mention prison/jail, which brands you with a permanent scarlet letter that bars you from even working at many jobs even after you’ve gotten out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (22 children)

Same thing with having one of those breathalyzer things on your car. You have to pay to have it installed, pay a monthly fee in addition to all the other shit you've already paid for. And then you can only go a very few certain places. Makes it incredibly difficult to recover from that. It's not to punish you or keep you off the road after a DUI, it's so they can extract more money from you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

They limit where you can go? Like with GPS reporting to somebody?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’ve unfortunately had the pleasure of needing one of these interlock devices installed on my car back in 2010. It’s definitely been awhile but the device only limits where you could go if you had alcohol in your system, and that limit would be NOWHERE. If you were sober you just had to blow clean every 5-20 minutes and I could drive as much as I pleased. The option without the device was no driving except to and from work and maybe the grocery store 1-2 times a week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

go if you had alcohol in your system, and that limit would be NOWHERE.

Isn’t that kind of the point of such a device?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I was explaining to the person I replied to because they clearly didn’t have a true understanding of how the device works.