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From: weltyrp@rpics.UUCP (Richard Welty)
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Subject: Re: Re: Seatbelts for passengers (micromotives & macrobehavior)
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 10:20:05 EDT
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>All the same, I'd like to propose another rationale in favor of the law, one
>which isn't respectable enough to make it as an official reason, but which
>is ultimately the real reason why I'm fer the law more than agin it.  All in
>all, I would rather wear a belt and be safe.  But (before the law) I would
>often feel silly -- like a nerdo wimp, you might say  -- or else, when a 
>passenger, feel like I'm insulting the driver.  "I'd better get this belt
>on quick, 'cause I know you're gonna crash us."  Okay, so with the law
>in place all these second thoughts and strange projections can just
>evaporate.  

Gee ... I always put on a belt, regardless of what the driver and/or other
passengers do, and never thought about it.  I have noticed, however, that a
friend who never used to wear belts has started putting his on when he
notices that I have just put mine on ...

When I am sitting in a front seat of a car, I do insist that the person
behind me put on a belt.  I started doing this after thinking about a film I
was shown of a back seat passenger (a test dummy, actually) slamming into
the seat in front of it.  The back seat passenger affects MY survivability.
-- 
				Rich Welty

	(I am both a part-time grad student at RPI and a full-time
	 employee of a local CAE firm, and opinions expressed herein
	 have nothing to do with anything at all)

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