Honestly, I’d just prefer there be less drunkeness period. That would decrease the occurrence of things such as domestic violence and not just drunk driving. But I’m also not going to advocate a return to Prohibition.
Here’s one exploration of the idea for talking away a drunk driver’s right to drink:
I also prefer people to not die. The idea of requiring licenses for alcohol usage is an idea I came up with branching off the idea of requiring test-taking and licensing for gun ownership. The possibility of decreasing domestic violence interests me more than decreasing drunk driving.
I’m not interested in enabling people who care primarily about being allowed to smoke as much weed and drink as much booze as they want.
That is one of those plans that don’t come to fruition in the real world. It’s an example of how the serious people centrists are the real magical thinkers and utopians.
I’m for mass transit for other reasons. You still can just not drive drunk and being against drunk driving doesn’t mean you’re hiring police and building prisons.
I don’t know how much punishment has had to do with it, but the rate of drunk driving seems to have gone down a lot and it seems like just social pressure and expectations have had a lot to do with it.