[ekanes]

> Most drunk people drive fine for hundreds of trips.

I don't know that this is true, but even if it was I don't know that it's useful information in terms of minimizing harm, just as pointing out that some people smoke their whole lives, live to be 90 and die in their sleep.

The devil is in the averages. The data shows that drunk drivers kill more people than sober drivers.

About the rest of your post, no downvote from me, you make a great point. You're right that society treats drunk driving as worse, but don't forget that texting while driving is a (relatively) new problem. Drunk driving used to be fine by society, and then values changed. Texting while driving is now undergoing a similar change, we're just much earlier in the process.

In principle you're right though, if texting while driving kills people (and it does) then we should treat that as aggressively as drunk driving.

Perhaps the difference here is that you can camp a bar, whereas it's harder to camp texters. ;)