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From: kgdykes@watbun.UUCP
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Subject: re Re Seat belts, Helmets and Freedom of Choice
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 03:46:42 EDT
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>From: junk@ur-tut.UUCP (Jan Vandenbrande)
>
>> ...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....
>        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.
 
Insurance costs would be greatly reduced (and risks to innocent bystanders)
if cigarettes and alcohol were totally illegal.
They cost society lots of money, they dont have "benefits" in any
real measurable sense, why are they tolerated? (except for the political
expediency of keeping certain industries economically healthy, and
are great tax-revenue sources)

          - Ken Dykes
            Software Development Group, U. of Waterloo
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