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From: plw@panda.UUCP (Pete Williamson)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.legal
Subject: Re: Seat Belts
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 09:18:18 EDT
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>Insurance companies stop paying for injuries that would have been prevented
>by wearing a seatbelt. If you want seat-belt-free insurance you have to pay
>through the nose because it obviously puts you in a high-risk group. Suicide
>is already exempted from coverage, so there's a precedent. It will encourage
>people to wear seatbelts, shut up the civil libertarians, and decrease the
>premiums responsible people have to pay (or at least slow down their growth).

An interesting idea ... except that it would tend to cause stupid people
to use seat belts ... and you know what that does to the world population's
average intelligence.
-- 
						Pete Williamson
"By hook or by crook, we will !!" ... #2