Posted by jdemaris on December 18, 2009 at 06:18:22 from (67.142.130.11):
In Reply to: OT/ Seat belts posted by cadet trooper on December 17, 2009 at 16:16:54:
I'm cognizant of the success rate of seat-belt use. I'm also aware of the health benefits (on average) for not smoking, not drinking alcohol, not using a chainsaw, not heating your home with a wood fire, not jumping in a lake and swimming, not running an old farm tractor that lacks modern safety equipment, not riding ATVs, snowmobiles, motorcycles, etc. In fact, walking or using mass transit, statistically, is much safer then driving any car with any safety gear. Probably never leaving home and living on welfare is a very safe life-style.
And so what? Does freedom of choice and personal responsibility mean anything anymore?
I don't enjoy tragedies. That is part of living and sometimes part of the personal choices we make.
For those concerned, maybe a wavier system is what we need. We agree to sign off on holding any taxpayer supported program from taking care of us when we screw up? But, if that is done, I think the list needs to be much longer than just for not wearing seat-belts.
Note also that some people have been killed because they DID wear seatbelts, and/or were killed by airbags. A minority, yes, but it happens. I was almost killed wearing a mandated safety harness in a bucket 40 feet in the air. I had to cut myself loose.
Maybe we need to outlaw stupidity? Better yet, make accidents illegal?
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