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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.cycle,net.auto
Subject: Re: Seat belts, Helmets and Freedom of Choice
Message-ID: <668@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 16:11:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 27 16:11:02 1986
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In article <543@ur-tut.UUCP> junk@ur-tut.UUCP (Jan Vandenbrande) writes:
>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.

in exchange for the PRIVILEGE of using public roads, you must exchange
a little bit of your personal freedoms for the good of the many.  if
you don't want to wear a seatbelt, do it on private roads.  this
has been rehashed many times in net.auto and will continue to be
talked about until people realize that public roads are different than
private roads.

are tollways considered private?  if so, the people running them could
impose just about any safety laws they wanted.

Herb Chong, IBM Research...

I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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