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From: niyogi@sunybcs.UUCP (Debashish Niyogi)
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Subject: Re: Re: Seat belts
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 17:57:21 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?

Why do I get the feeling that this issue has degenerated into petty bickering ?
The above comment about public air and baked beans has got to be one of the
most inane things I've ever heard.

For your information, eating baked beans does *not* lead to killing/maiming
other people, whereas driving without seatbelts *may* do so, as pointed out
by so many people recently.

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---  Debashish Niyogi

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