Great post Billy.
Yes, we have not only the right, but a moral obligation in my opinion, to speak out against driving while under the influence. Using nycalternati's logic, our lawmakers should not be making laws because that would be "judging people". As you eluded to Billy, we wouldn't have a jury system because people would not be allowed to judge another person's behavior.

This does not have anything to do with judging the original poster. It has everything to do with speaking out against her BEHAVIOR. No, I am not a saint. I am not a perfect human being. But I do NOT drive while impaired, PERIOD. If I did choose to get into a car and drive after consuming four drinks, and I got caught and charged, then the judge or jury would have every right to JUDGE my behavior and dole out the appropraite punishment for what I did. I can bet that my friends and family would never let me hear the end of it either..well they wouldn't for a very long time anyway. They would have every right and a moral obligation to verbally chastise me and do what they could to convince me to never drive while impaired again.

There are way too many deaths and injuries caused by drunk driving. You would think after all the years of groups like MADD trying to educate the public, that this would be a rarity. It isn't. Read the statistics I posted. All of those deaths and injuries could have been avoided simply by people making a choice not to drink or to consume drugs to the point of impairment and drive.

For you to allude that the members here who are speaking out against DUI are just a bunch of self righteous, hypocrtical windbags, is morally bankrupt. Why not rest on the side of safety, and, as another poster so eloquently wrote, personal responsibilty, instead of calling the people who abhor this behavior self righteous?

You really need to seperate the concepts of judging a person as a whole and making a judgement on bad behavior. Judging behavior is done every day, from parents who discipline their children, to judges and juries who punish people for crimes they are convicted of. Very few people are lost causes. Their behavior is what is being judged and what they are being punished for. After all in our courts we do not throw people in jail because they are "bad people". We put them in prison for specific bad behaviors that society has deemed are crimes. DWI IS a crime, and it is judged accordingly. Get it?