The Government, Morality, and Other Musings

[Kaos]

You are the exception to every rule.

There.  Fixed it. 

[Vandy Vol]

So if no one else is in the car?

I call BS on seatbelt laws. TW - using that logic creates a very slippery slope in regulating society. Where does it end? California with certain foods kids can bring to school? It can get messy and intrusive if you let it.

If no one else is in the car, then their theory is that the seat belt allows you to maintain control of your car throughout an accident, at least moreso than if you were jolted away from the front seat and the car was allowed to continue onward without a driver.

In theory, I can see how that may happen, but I don't know that it occurs frequently enough to be a legitimate issue of concern.

[Saniflush]

helmet laws suck

[Snaggletiger]

helmet laws suck

Weeerrrrrd.  When I'm riding my Hawg (Scooter) down to the Bar (Miss Lucille's) I want to be ridin' free and easy with the wind blowing through my hair (Balding dome).

[GarMan]

If no one else is in the car, then their theory is that the seat belt allows you to maintain control of your car throughout an accident, at least moreso than if you were jolted away from the front seat and the car was allowed to continue onward without a driver.

In theory, I can see how that may happen, but I don't know that it occurs frequently enough to be a legitimate issue of concern. 

That all sounds good, but seat belt laws are just another example of knee-jerk, reactionary, feel-good politics.  Gubme't Goons, no smarter than any of us, think they're doing something good for the ignorant masses who are deemed too stupid to wear their seatbelt without a government mandate.  It's a lot like smoking laws.  In their minds, we're too stupid to live our own lives without the gubm'et telling us what to do... 

[RWS]

Well, damn.  I was in a car wreck and would have died if I'd been wearing my seatbelt. 

That trumps Alicia.

I've seen people's brains in trees because they weren't wearing a seatbelt and were ejected. Had they been wearing a seatbelt, most of them would have been relatively unharmed. Six of one, half dozen of the other I suppose. I can go along with a seatbelt law, and helmet laws for motorcycles. I read an article the other day where there were some motorcyclists protesting New York's helmet law, and to protest they decided to ride around a town with no helmets. All was well until one of the guys hit his brakes too hard and flipped over the handlebars and died from head trauma. Of course, it's up for debate what is the exception and what is the rule.

I don't always wear my seatbelt, but I do believe they save lives. That's speaking from the standpoint of seeing 12 years worth of wrecks and working on patients involved in those wrecks. I mean, I'm allergic to Penicillin and it will fuck me up bad if I took it, but there are plenty of people that it helps. I guess that's how I look at that. 

[AU_Tiger_2000]

I always wear my seatbelt because I can't figure out which fuse to pull to make that stupid chime quit ringing.

[ssgaufan]

I always wear my seatbelt because I can't figure out which fuse to pull to make that stupid chime quit ringing.

^^^THIS^^^

As a member of the US Armed Forces, if you die in a car wreck and weren't wearing your seatbelt, your life insurance doesn't pay.  That is the only reason that I wear mine.   I wouldn't want to rob my family of that money.