Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: PISSED OFF (seatbelts) Message-ID: <932@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:48:12 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.932 Posted: Mon Jan 14 03:48:12 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:43:37 EST References:<236@calmasd.UUCP> <245@calmasd.UUCP> Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 40 > In article jlh@loral.UUCP (Aiken Drum) writes: > >If you want to wear a god damned, mutha ****n, sh****s, SOB seatbelt feel > >free, but DONT YOU DARE TELL ME TO WEAR ONE OR ELSE!!! It's my face going > >through the windsheild... > > My point is that it's not only your face going throug the windshield. > Someone has to clean up after you and live with the disruption it > causes. Why should we have to put up with that when all it takes is > 10 seconds maximum of your time to put on the belt? > -- > Cheryl Nemeth That argument ("saves us a bunch a trouble if you just do what we tell you") can be used for all sorts of controls on the individual. I disagree with it. We have enough laws regulating our individual lives; a seat belt law would be just another intrusion. (I just got a new car and the only think I hate about it is its damned seat belt buzzer *even though I am going to put on the seat belt anyway.* It's like having your Mom reminding you to eat your vegetables, even when you've already decided to eat them.) I wear my seat belt *all the time*, because I want to, not because someone ordered me to. There is the counter-argument "well, it DOES cost all of us when you don't wear your seltbelt, because of socialized medicene...." I don't think I should be paying for "socialized medicene" either, so that argument doesn't move me. On the other hand, my auto insurer will discount my insurance by 10% if I agree to wear a seatbelt and ask my passengers to do likewise. This is a much preferable solution: providing *incentives* for those who choose to, and giving *them* the rewards of having done so. (My insurer is CSAA - Calif only). -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam