COMMENT | “With great power comes great responsibility.” A cliché, I know, but it makes the point, and its obviousness might even be amusing.

But do you know what isn’t funny? When children lose a father, a wife loses a husband, and a mother loses a son. We’ve all read the recent news of motorcyclist Amirul Hafiz Omar being killed in a drink-driving case.

He left behind a wife and three small children. The driver, R Saktygaanapathy, has been charged with murder.

What happened was terrible, and that’s why drink driving needs to be a serious offence.

Short of capital punishment, I think people who are guilty of drink driving need to be given the heaviest punishment because it is irresponsible and dangerous. Come on, we live in an era of ride-sharing apps, so it’s not difficult to make the right choice.

We also need to stop calling incidents involving drink driving as accidents. An accident is when something happens unintentionally. Drink driving incidents are not accidents because the drunk driver made an intentional choice when they decided to get behind the wheel.

As important as this issue is, it really isn’t the point of why I am writing my piece today. What I would like to highlight is how...