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From: junk@ur-tut.UUCP (Jan Vandenbrande)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.cycle,net.auto
Subject: Re: Seat belts, Helmets and Freedom of Choice
Message-ID: <543@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jul-86 14:19:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.543
Posted: Fri Jul 25 14:19:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Jul-86 09:04:42 EDT
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Summary: Really?

In article <6133@sri-spam.ARPA> robert@sri-spam.ARPA (Robert Allen) writes:
>has saved my head and face twice.  However, I opposed the enaction of the
>mandatory seatbelt law in California for the same reason I oppose mandatory
>helmet laws; it's my business what I do with my body.  Note that the seatbelt
> ....
	Indeed it is anyones business what they do with their body.
But who pays for a person to be patched up after an accident? The insurance.
And who pays the insurance? Right, we all do (so I hope). And now it
becomes my business too. If I indirectly have to pay for you to be
scraped from the pavement and be reassembled, I'd rather have your,
mine and everyone's elses freedom diminished a bit by requiring
everyone to wear protective devices such as helmets, seatbelts, etc.
The small sacrifice is worth the benefit.
Jan.