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From: btl@mtunf.UUCP (Bernie Lee)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Seatbelts Again
Message-ID: <504@mtunf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 12:35:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 12:35:42 1986
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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

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