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From: akers@oliven.UUCP (Rob Akers)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.auto
Subject: Re: Massachusetts seat belt law
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 19:50:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 19:50:40 1986
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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 ...
> >
> >Furthermore, the same should be applied to, for instance, fires started by cigarettes...
> >
> >DISCLAIMER: I support neither the "charge the seatbelt skippers who have 
> >accidents" nor the "charge the smokers who start fires" policies.  I am just
> >trting to show how ridiculous the "charge the seatbelt skippers" idea is.
> 
> 
> Lung cancer and house fires are irrelevant to the seat belt issue.  It
> needs no pseudo-reasoning by analogy to be discussed.  Auto insurance
> rates are going through the roof, and it seems evident that a few simple
> corrective measures can bring them down for everyone.  
> 
> If a problem is decidable on its own merits, one need not introduce
> irrelevant analogies to confound the issue.
> 
> Brint



If you believe auto insurance rates will go down if seat belt laws are passed,
then you probably also beleve in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth
Fairy.


Rob Akers