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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
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Subject: Re: Massachusetts seat belt law (Precedent in law)
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Date: Fri, 27-Dec-85 17:27:18 EST
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> In article <1467@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) writes:
> >
> >According to that "reasoning" we should ban smoking--after all, more people
> >getting lung cancer raises everybody's insurance rate ...
> >
> 
> Lung cancer and house fires are irrelevant to the seat belt issue.  It
> needs no pseudo-reasoning by analogy to be discussed.
...
> If a problem is decidable on its own merits, one need not introduce
> irrelevant analogies to confound the issue.
> 
Unfortunatly, Law works by precedent.  Passing a law of one kind
lends precedent to laws of similar kind.  These 'irrelevant analogies'
are what the future holds if the premise is validated.
-- 
E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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