From: utzoo!watmath!kgdykes Newsgroups: net.auto Title: Re: seatbelts and freedom Article-I.D.: watmath.3342 Posted: Fri Aug 20 02:14:39 1982 Received: Fri Aug 20 03:45:36 1982 References: sri-unix.2671 utcsstat.309 Since people like to quote the "costing the rest of society" excuse for silly laws how about making smoking and drinking totally illegal this would be totally within the rights of society as a whole and i would hope no one would dare think that these activities are without cost to non-users. in other words, that excuse could be applied to just about ANY ACTIVITY but it is those "majorities" that politicians fear who end up retainging their "freedoms" (or excesses). Until anti-seatbelt foes become a vocal, and apparent majority politcally, we will suffer by two-faced politicians who (while smoking and drinking heavily) pass laws preventing a few hundred people costing the rest of society an imagined great expense. (here i use smoking and drinkin as examples, not necessarily true indications of my beliefs) ....ken (decvax!utzoo!watmath!kgdykes)