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Comment by bayesian_horse | Hacker News Reader

You missed the hint about the domestic violence?

Yes, the made up one. Do you think someone who spends $100 to get wasted at a bar and another $30 to get home is less likely to commit domestic violence than someone who can down a whole fifth of whiskey at home with no bartender supervision for $20?

Lyft and Uber do not enable binge drinking, they enable social binge drinking. The violent drunks I knew of growing up were plenty content on getting hammered at home and becoming violent. Most would become violent well after they would have been cutoff by a bartender.

I don't see any evidence your statement isn't made up either.

Well it’s pretty common knowledge that bartenders cutoff drunks and that alcohol is cheaper to consume in the home. Which of those would you like to dig into first?

None of those, but the implicit assumption that the pool of violent drunks won't increase when the bar (pun intended) for binge drinking in any setting is lowered.

All lyft and uber have done in terms of social drinking was give you an option to pay for a dd rather than have one of your friends on the role. This is probably still true today but bars can call taxis for you.

For me the point wasn't that much about enabling more domestic violence, but about being "in the loop" of that particular incident.

Also, yes, it is worse when the person is drinking out of the home, because that means family members have a lot less control over the drinking and less warning.

And domestic violence really doesn't have a high requirement of blood alcohol level. Even very minor levels can disinhibit a person, especially if he is already habituated to act out on his family members.

So they don't like that either?

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