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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: mandatory seatbelt laws
Message-ID: <3438@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 13:36:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 13:36:39 1984
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>              In a free country, like this one, I should be able to go out
and risk my life by doing such incredibly stupid things like driving my car
without using my seat belt, or riding my motorcycle without my helmet.  If I
succeed in killing myself, so be it.  It is none of your business to try to
protect me from my own stupidity.  

Kirk Glerum
    ...decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!uw-june!kirkg
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   Well, that would be fine, if one could let your body rot by the side of the
road, or if you could be allowed to die without treatment if you were injured. 
Apparently you have never worked for a rescue unit, fire department, or
hospital emergency room. Also apparently, you haven't thought of the fact
that we, the taxpayers, pay for the cleanup of many of the acts of stupidity
which you describe.  Given the choice between paying for some idiot's medical
care (or body and wreck removal) and having a mandatory seatbelt law (as
silly as that seems), I'll take the latter any day.

                                         Jeff Winslow