Texting and Driving

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1)  ....Tell me what is the difference between that and letting my hand just sit there? The amount of attention going into it is the same as if I were having a conversation with someone in the car with me.

I would disagree and here's why. Like most people, I learned to speak in sentences by the time I was 3 or 4 without any formal schooling or coaching. People around me spoke and I figured out how to speak back all on my own at a very young age. I don't think I'm at all unique in this respect.

Writing sentences? That came later and took years of formal schooling. Again I'm sure I'm not unique here. So while I would agree that being able to write in coherent sentences a very basic adult skill that lots of people are able to do with minimal distraction, I do not for a second buy into the theory that it takes absolutely no more mental bandwidth than talking. The facts regarding the age and effort required to learn to do each definitely suggest otherwise. 
I totally get that to you, it 'feels' like it takes absolutely no more mental bandwidth. But it definitely does. Probably not much more, but definitely more. 

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2) Nope, but then again people eat while driving and that is more distracting than my texting.

Again, you would have a point if all children were bottle fed until someone with a degree in education taught them to feed themselves in the third for forth grade. But I'm pretty sure that's not how it goes down for most folks.

3) I feel like this is a duplicate question just rephrased.

Nope its very valid question. You wrote that you only text with your right hand and that you don't look at the text while texting. The question is do you adhere to that 100% of the time. Its a valid question. Because MANY people will claim something similar but what they actually mean is that they don't look while texting very much. Not looking very much is not the same as not looking ever. So its a very valid and very simple question. Have you ever looked at the words on the screen of your phone while texting while driving? Yes or no?

4) I'm not worried about killing someone since I always keep my hand on the wheel and my eyes on the road. 

Drunk drivers have their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road too. Unfortunately, there's more to it than that.
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Funny thing...the guy who rammed me said he was only looking down at his phone 'for a second'. Yeah, that matters a whole lot to me while I'm lying there bleeding and wondering if I'm ever going to be able to walk again. One second of inattention for him, 8 hours in the hospital for me, and over 2 years of recovery. So going by that logic...even one goddamn second can make you totally fuck shit up. And again with the drunk driving analogy...just because you claim to be able to text and drive with no issues doesn't mean you're smarter or better, it means you're luckier.