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Michael Schaub of Morrison writes:

Let me get this straight. Your friend went to your house and he got drunk. Now you feel that the cab companies should have “an ethical responsibility” for giving your friend a ride home? How about your friend, knowing he still has to go home, being “ethically responsible” and not getting drunk. How about your “ethical responsibility” and not serving your friend until he becomes inebriated. How about you, as his friend” offering him a place to stay until he sobered up. If your friend had left your house and was involved in an accident, you are also responsible. I’m sure the cab drivers didn’t want to take the call because they probably get stiffed from the majority of drunks they pick up. Bottom line, it was your friends choice to get drunk, not the cab companies. You and your friend need to take the responsibility for you actions. That is what ethically responsible adults do.

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READER COMMENTS

Cheers to ethically responsible adults (no pun intended)..............

Ok I'm done being a smart ass for the day, but I agree with the letter writer :)

I agree one has to take responsibility for their actions. My befuddlement comes to the taxi's. Now at Christmas time they offer free rides to those who have had to much. Then all year long it is their business to drive people around.

As for the friend who was to drunk to drive, was not calling for a taxi being responsible? Instead of driving drunk, he looked for alternative transportation. This sounds like he was initially being responsible for his actions.

I guess a form of profileing by the taxi drivers is ok as well. If they get a call to go to say commerace city or east colfax. They can not take it because of the nieghborhoods and the fear of being mugged or jipped out of a fare there as well. A call to Federal on cinco de mayo can be turned down then if they think they may have to pick up a drug user.

Bottom line if they don't want the fare then don't show up. If they wanrt to make money then take the chance and pick the fare up.

First, I The cab company has no ethical responsibility. But if they advertise "we sell rides to people" (which is implied by being a "taxi" company), then they really should not leave people hanging who try to purchase their services. I've never, ever known anyone to call a taxi for fun - they call because they NEED a ride. Is it okay for the electric company to decide not to sell to a particular person because of their address or sobriety? By this standard they should be able to discriminate that way - still doesn't make it right.

I agree totally with the letter writer but I have to point out that being responsible for ones actions have been replaced by lawsuits. Look up a website of dumb lawsuits and you will see many examples of this. A person gets drunk and gets into a wreck, they try to sue the bar for serving them. A person gets shot committing a crime, they sue either the law enforcement agency or who ever shot them for the pain, 2 border agents are in jail and are betrayed by our government because an illegal immigrant and drug smuggler was shot and now he is suing the US for several milllion dollars. You want people to be responsible? Easy, file a lawsuit against lawyers for making the rest of mankind look like idiots and for people to take respoonsability for their actions. Starting with parents with their children and the children themselves. Then as they grow older, they may actually take responsability and god help us all, become better people for it.

Sounds like a college republican.

rick,

When Nick mentioned "personal responsilbity" as a positive thing I knew right away he wasn't a liberal.

Conservative, code for draft-dodger. Bush and Alito (UCMJ-felons; AWOL, deserters, and both guilty of illegal separation and discharge), aren't poster-boys for "personal responsibility".

What does GW have to do with calling a taxi when you're drunk?

Ooooooh I remember now EVERYTHING is his fault..............

I'm beginning to think it's his fault I have dry skin.......

Black Denver Federal Judge Wiley Daniels (draft dodger) is a dixiecrat. He won't accept "personal responsibility", where he violated my constitutional and basic humankind rights. He should be impeached and jailed. Daniels is aided and abetted in covering-up his guilt, by Denver Post Editor Greg Moore (black). Moore won't let his white reporters, report on BLACK on BLACK crimes.

I wrote Daniels a rather scathing letter where I call into his question his character and allegiance to America. I also nailed Wilma Webb, former Denver Director, USDOL-OFCCP in this letter. Daniels ordered 8 white Denver US Marshals to illegally arrest and detain me. These 8 NAZIS (SS) violated my civil rights by not reading me my Miranda Rights, never offered me an attorney, no telephone call, and never showed me a bench or federal arrest warrant.

I asked the NAACP and ACLU for their legal assistance, and they both cut and ran. I wrote former USAG John "no woman's breast exposed" Ashcroft (draftdodger) and told him to file criminal charges against his 8 NAZIS, and he blew me off. I also made a written FOIA request to Ashcroft, requesting the names of his 8 NAZIS, so I could sue them. Again, Disco Ashcroft denied my lawful request.

Did I mention Ashcroft, Denver Chief Judge Snotty-Notty/ Bush (draft dodgers), sentenced ex-black Denver US Marshal Benny Bailey (26 years service), to 6 years in prison, because Bailey had consenual sex with a WHITE WOMAN (alternate juror in Tim McVeigh's OK City bomobing trial)?

James J. Tenant
Lt. Commander, LDO, USN, Ret.
Served in 3 nuclear powered submarines, 4 surface combat ships, and 3 deployments to Vietnam.

draftdodgingisntafamilyvalue,

You sure like asking for things. Looks like the world owes you bigtime.

Tell me, on those subs, did you have to work near the reactors alot?

I'm sorry again what does this have to do with calling a taxi when you're drunk?

Oh yea absolutely NOTHING, go find another platform to tell your sad story to!

Michael: "How about your friend, knowing he still has to go home, being “ethically responsible” and not getting drunk."

That would be great. Unfortunately, it often doesn't happen and people get killed. Telling the survivors that the punk driver wasn't being ethically responsible doesn't really help much.

I do agree that the responsibility was much more that of the host and not the cap company. I do think it would save some lives if there were a way to provide transportation for drunks when the drunks and others fail to carry out their responsibilities.

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