[plug] What do you school-age members think of SlashDot'sHellMouth articles?

[Bret Busby]

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On 5/4/99, 5:37:53 PM, Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.smileys.net> wrote 
regarding Re: [plug] What do you school-age members think of 
SlashDot'sHellMouth articles?:


> Mike Holland wrote:
> > Like the car of a drunk driver is not to blame, but banning cars would
> > save many lives. We react with horror at that thought -its not worth 
it.

> Evolution (AKA un-natural selection) in action: one small African
> country changed their road rules. Drink driving, first offense: 
warning
> and sent home by other means. Drink driving, second offense, bullet in
> brain behind police station. They shot about 20 people and cut their
> road toll by several hundred in the first year. Bargain, especially
> since most of the saved lives were essentially innocent. But unlikely 
to
> work in Oz. Perhaps: no licence for life on second offense, huge fine
> and ten years' mandatory first-aid service for DWOL after that?

A  few years ago, I remember, finding in the media, that, in, a 
country in Europe, the second conviction for drunk driving, resulted 
in mandatory imprisonment.