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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: But at what cost...
Message-ID: <1774@orca.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 17:39:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: orca.1774
Posted: Fri Sep 27 17:39:21 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 08:24:05 EDT
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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>> Why do you insist on making the seat belt interlocks unbeatable??  If an
>> idiot really wants to drive around without belts (i.e., has suicidal
>> tendencies), its his/her business, and no one else's.
>> John Allred
>
>No, it is EVERYONE'S business!  We ALL pay for the maiming and death in
>increased health care and insurance costs.

By this argument, we should prohibit the use of wood and other
combustibles in houses, so as to cut down the costs of losses due to
fire.  We should forbid people to build in areas where earthquakes or
hurricanes are likely.  We should prohibit people with life insurance
from doing *anything* risky.

You have to draw a line between cost to society and freedom of the
individual.  I draw the line in favor of freedom, even freedom to do
things I deem stupid.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]


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