Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: PISSED OFF (seatbelts) Message-ID: <7436@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 19:28:46 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7436 Posted: Wed Jan 16 19:28:46 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 05:25:19 EST References: <236@calmasd.UUCP> <245@calmasd.UUCP> <932@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 25 > 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. -Ron Natalie, EMT-A > > 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 insurance company gives you a substantial discount for having passive restraint systems (air bags or those funny VW seatbelts). Of course, insurance is very socialized. If you get in an accident without your seatbelt on and you fall into the same demographic category as I do, my rates do go up.