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From: micci@nvuxg.UUCP (D M Dennee)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Seatbelts Again
Message-ID: <252@nvuxg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 16:49:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 16:49:11 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Jan-86 04:15:52 EST
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> To make it short, ONLY THOSE WHO FLUNKED IN physics AND statistics
> WOULD REFUSE TO BUCKLE UP IN THE CAR.
>
> It's true again that the U.S. Constitution allows you to keep your
> right to remain ignorant.

And people are just as ignorant if they have only one drink and get
behind the wheel.  They're also ignorant if they don't wear sunglasses
on a day when glare can easily cause an accident...and so on...
Actually, I DO where my seatbelt 95% of the time, despite the fact
that it makes it a pain in the ass to reach my glove box that contains
my toll money for the Parkway--or makes it nearly impossible to get
anything out of my pocket.  So.  Let it be my choice.  If I want to
be ignorant 5% of the time, that's my problem.  And if having to wear
seatbelts lowers our insurance rates, how come New Jersey still has
unreasonably high insurance rates?  When I see the premiums come down
a bit, maybe I'll be a bit (but not much) more convinced about the
validity of having to be told what to do.  Maybe I wont quite mind
as much that we're being treated like we have no minds.

--Micci