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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?(NO!)
Message-ID: <247@tekcrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 13:34:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 13:34:22 1985
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> > 
> >   If you had the power to save lives, would you do it? You and I do have that
> >   power. On this day and at this moment, people are being smashed to death    
> >   inside their cars when their lives could be preserved by air bags. We are
> >   deprived of air bags by the opposing efforts of the powerful auto industry.
> >   Safety experts claim that each year air bags would prevent thousands of     
> >   deaths and prevent hundreds of thousands of serious injuries. A chorus of
> >   voices raised in unison and directed at our representatives would have a
> >   great impact. Please write. No endeavor is more important nor more noble
> >   than to save lives.
> >   
> 
> No. No NO! I would not. Why should I have to spend another $1000 or more
> for a new car just because some idiots don't have enough sense to use
> the safety equipment that is already provided?  The seatbelts are there
> and surely the public has by now received enough education on their use.
> My entire family uses them - and always has. If people do not care
> enough about themselves or their families - to hell with `em. 


     Here, here!!!! Get those bad genes out of the gene pool, I always says.
Selective (or is it adaptive?) evolution at it's best!!!! You don't want to
perpetuate those bad genes, now, do you??? (-: