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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
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Subject: Re: mandatory seatbelt laws
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 01:52:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 01:52:05 1984
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Much as I favor public safety laws and even the 55-MPH limit, I must
agree that requiring adults to wear seatbelts is a dumb idea.  In
a more cynical mood, I would say those who don't are just continuing
the process of natural selection...

When an adult passenger gets into my car, I ask them to put on their
seatbelt.  Though I encourage it, if they don't want to, I don't force
it.  They are adults, presumably self-determining and all that good
stuff, and I feel they can choose not to.  Thus should the law keep
its nose out.

While the California law requiring children to be strapped in bothers
me a bit, ultimately I feel that the state probably should protect
those children from their parents' ignorance in this case.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett
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