QUESTION TEXT: Steven: The allowable blood alcohol level for…
QUESTION TYPE: Point At Issue
ARGUMENTS: Steven thinks that we should cut the legal blood alcohol limit, to stop social drinkers from driving.
Miguel thinks that won’t help, because heavy drinkers are the biggest problem.
ANALYSIS: Steven and Miguel disagree on whether we should cut the legal blood alcohol limit.
They also disagree on the impact social drinkers have. Steven thinks we’d have much safer highways without them. Miguel says that taking them off the road would have little impact.
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- CORRECT. Steven says the roads would be a lot safer without social drinkers. Miguel says we’d see little effect from taking them off the roads.
- Neither of them mentioned whether there was a direct correlation between blood alcohol and safety. (direct correlation means that additional additional beer is equally harmful. But it could be that someone is fine after three but a terrible danger after 4-5.)
- Miguel says yes. Steven doesn’t say. He probably agrees, since he thinks social drinkers also are a big threat.
- Steven says yes. Miguel never said he thought all social drinkers were safe drivers. He might even say that some drivers are a danger even when sober.
- They probably both agree this driver would be dangerous, but neither of them say what they would think of a driver with 1.5 times the legal limit.
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