These laws specifically create liability for a person who serves a drink to a person who is obviously intoxicated. In a bar.
My point exactly! This is a function of being drunk and how a person acts. It has nothing to do with how much they buy. Come in and drop 100k (hyperbolic number) in “rounds for everybody!” Without drinking anythijg yourself and they’ll never throw you out or cut you off.
I do not agree with this line of thinking at all. If someone gets drunk and drives a car the responsibility for that is not on the bartender for their bad decision, it’s on the driver. The bartender has no idea if, when the person left the bar, they’re heading for their car or an Uber or a bus. Furthermore, the purpose of bars is for people to get drunk. These sorts of laws are absolutely based in “ok we’re going to allow you to sell alcohol but also drinking is BAD and WRONG so we are going to punish you if you, a person who is hired to sell drinks, allows a person to get drunk.” Fuck that puritanical bullshit.
My point exactly! This is a function of being drunk and how a person acts. It has nothing to do with how much they buy. Come in and drop 100k (hyperbolic number) in “rounds for everybody!” Without drinking anythijg yourself and they’ll never throw you out or cut you off.
I do not agree with this line of thinking at all. If someone gets drunk and drives a car the responsibility for that is not on the bartender for their bad decision, it’s on the driver. The bartender has no idea if, when the person left the bar, they’re heading for their car or an Uber or a bus. Furthermore, the purpose of bars is for people to get drunk. These sorts of laws are absolutely based in “ok we’re going to allow you to sell alcohol but also drinking is BAD and WRONG so we are going to punish you if you, a person who is hired to sell drinks, allows a person to get drunk.” Fuck that puritanical bullshit.
Yes these laws are absolutely absurd