Psy Week 5 Assignment

Indoctrination and Inoculation

By Beth Hardin

PSY 285

June 7, 2014

I will attempt to persuade my fellow class mates to support my position of abstaining from driving while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. I will educate and inform my fellow peers with the knowledge I have gathered that illustrates the dangers and negative consequences of drinking/drugging while driving. Through indoctrination and inoculation I will persuade my peers to use logical inquiry and problem solving to arrive at the conclusion that drinking/drugging while driving is something they must never do.

Drinking/drugging while driving is not only illegal it is highly dangerous. “In 2012, 10,322 people died in drunk driving crashes - one every 51 minutes.” (NHTSA data, 2013) To me this is a very large number. To think that every 51 minutes, someone dies as a result of a preventable tragedy compels me to think that drinking and drugging while driving is one of the utmost stupidest things a person can do. I personally have experienced the effects of drinking/drugging while driving when I was a small child. I actually saw my friend get hit by a drunk driver. We were riding bikes and he rode out in the road, me right behind him. A drunk driver ran into him and instantly killed him, as he was a child of seven. Now what about that little boy? I feel as if every time an innocent person gets killed as a result of the stupidity of another person, they take away so much from so many people. His mother never got to see him grow up, and become a man. They had to deal with tragedy that never should have happened all because another person made a poor choice.

When a person makes the choice to get behind the wheel while they are under the effects of drugs and or alcohol, they are choosing to not only put others in danger there are also legal ramifications that can happen. When a person gets pulled over for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs and or alcohol, they face...