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From: ec120bgt@sdcc3.UUCP (ANDREW VARE)
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Subject: Re: Seat belts
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 18:42:50 EDT
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> >If you want to drive without seatbelts, fine -- do it on your own piece
> >of real estate.  If you come out on publicly funded roads, in traffic with
> >other people, it is your obligation to do so in a responsible manner.
> 
> So, since I breath public air, the government has a right to prevent me from
> eating baked beans?

Hey buddy, if you ask me, driver safety is a public good as well as
a personal responsibility. Hence your inability to do something as
simple as buckling up indeed does violate my safety. And in
violating my safety you have pissed off someone who is 6'2"
235 lbs and not at all restrained in using my temper to solve my
problems. Any further questions, netwit?