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From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Massachusetts seat belt law
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 23:00:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 23:00:00 1985
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>/* Written  7:28 pm  Dec 14, 1985 by moore@mit-eddie in inmet:net.politics */
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>I can see your point about being annoyed at the 'staties' pulling you over
>the ones already wearing seatbelts.  The problem is that piles of drivers
>still refuse to wear them, of course;  there is now way for the staties to
>know which ones are wearing them or not.  Solution?  Pull everyone over.
>What if boils down to is the fact that the ones not wearing belts are making
>it a hassle for those of us who do wear them.  After all, they're just trying
>to keep us from dying right?  (and before you turn on the flames, do you think
>they'd enforce the law if they didn't approve of it?  On second thought,  they
>have superiors...)  In any case, I'm not against their trying to save lives,
>what I'm against is the ones who don't wear the belts, making it a hassle, in
>the long run, for those tho do wear them.
>
>-drew
>/* End of text from inmet:net.politics */

I think not, Drew.  The folks who refuse to wear seatbelts are doing a
foolish thing, granted, but the process by which the wasteful destruction
of their lives becomes a "hassle" to the rest of us is not THEIR fault,
but rather the fault of those who dislike allowing other people to do as 
they please.

There's a place for this sort of attitude when you're raising children,
but not when you're dealing with (moral) peers.  Unfortunately, this
attitude has been enshrined, along with "Mom & Apple Pie".  Lowering
the highway speed limit to (say) 10 mph would also save lives, but
they haven't gotten 'round to that yet.

It is that group of people who hassle the rest of us -- if everyone
were to wear a seatbelt, they'd only find some other excuse....

I'm not looking forward to when it becomes possible to condition a human
being to always obey the law.....