We are way off topic on this so I will only reply once and not engage in conversation in the forum but since you asked.....

Bartenders are neither doctors nor police, chronic alcoholics have extremely high tolerances, individuals may imbibe quite a lot without looking particularly intoxicated only to have the effects progressively worsen after leaving the bar without anymore intake. Bartenders have no knowledge of who is driving and who is not. Bartenders have no right to pry into whether I am driving or not.

A bartender is no more involved in an accident caused by an intoxicated driver than the clerk at walmart is involved in a drive-by shooting. Both retailers merely sold items that are legal to consumers that are legaly allowed to consume those items. The subsequent use or consequences of the behavior of the consumer is not the responsibility of the merchant. This attempt to avoid the personal responsiblity for ones own actions is deplorable. If an intoxicated individual or a non intoxicated individual kills someone through poor use of their vehicle then they are responsible for manslaughter. They and they alone are responsible for the decisions that led to that point. Whether it is because they are bad drivers or because they are intoxicated should not be part of the question. To make the bartender responsible you would logically also have to make the driver-education teacher responsible in the case where it is just plain bad driving or speeding or perhaps we should make the meteoroligist responsible when it is a weather related accident.

Certainly If a bartender chooses to sell liqour to an individual who legally is not allowed to buy (minor - someone who is clearly over-intoxicated, etc) then they have violated the law. That issue ends at the door of the bar. If someone has two beers and then gets in a car they will be in violation of the DWI laws. Presumably those DWI laws are set at the level where driving reaction-times become impaired. Certainly no bartender could conclude that the average individual is overly-intoxicated after two beers.

This society already attempted to ban the use of alcohol - that failed. To shift the responsability of the individuals actions away from the individual and onto all those around them is an attempt to make access to alcohol difficult and will also fail. Bartenders now have the burden of making it difficult for individuals to get access to the amount of alcohol that they individually feel is adequate for their individual purposes. To be actually safe from litigation bars would have to implement breathalizers to be used before each order is placed / delivered. This of-course won't stand. A bartender couldn't even be safe requireing a 1 drink maximum limit since the individual that they are serving could have easily had one at each bar on the street adding up to quite a few before comming into a particular establishment for their 1 drink maximum.

Making the individual responsible for their actions and not taking the intoxication level of the individual into consideration as a mitigating factor to their guilt would have a much more chilling effect on the bad behavior - poor driving while having no impact on the legal behavior - drinking. If I knew that I risked manslaughter charges for killing someone while driving drunk instead of a two year suspension of driving priveledges and a shared fine with the bartender I might choose to walk home or not to drink when I have to drive but on the occasion when I could get home without risking others lives I would be able to get as snookered as I might want without the barkeep poking his nose into my affairs.

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