Quote:Agreed, I'm just pointing out the absurdity of legislating responsibility. Seat belt laws are just revenue streams on the public, click it or ticket might as well be a fund raiser for the local county.


 

 

You seem the think that if a person is in an accident while not wearing a seat belt, they are the only one affected.   But that's not true.   It affects their mother and father, their wife, husband, and children.   It affects their friends, and it even affects people who don't know them, because the severity of the injuries puts a strain on the hospital system, causing our insurance rates to go up.   Try telling the mother of a teenage girl or boy that there should be no seat belt laws. 

 

And what about if I accidentally run a stop sign and hit someone who is not wearing a seat belt.   They could be dead, and I would be headed for a lengthy jail term for, at best, manslaughter.   If they had been wearing their seat belt, we exchange insurance information and go on with our lives. 

 

So it's not just the person who is injured who is affected.   It's all of us, in a variety of ways.   That's why most reasonable people support seat belt laws. 

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