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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam)
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Subject: Re: PISSED OFF (seatbelts)
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 04:15:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 04:15:00 1985
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> > = me
>   = Ron Natalie, EMT-A
>  
> > 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.
> > 
> Yeah, go ahead don't where your seatbelt.  It makes things a lot more
> interesting for me.  It's a lot more fun starting IV's, admisistering
> MAST trousers, and applying spinal imobilization to people then it is
> just to treat them for bruised collarbones.

I guess you missed it but I said I wear my seatbelt anyway; and (yet)
I insist it should should be an individual choice than a governmentally
dictated one.

I consider this distinction to be rather important.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam