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From: mojo@mp-mojo.UUCP (Mojo Jones)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Seat belts, Helmets and Freedom of Choice
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Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 16:39:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 29 16:39:14 1986
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From: junk@ur-tut.UUCP (Jan Vandenbrande)
> 	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.

When I'm approached with problems that I try to solve in my favorite
libertarian paradise, the answer becomes simple.  Insurance companies
play a big role in a free society, and I'd love to see better competition
and less regulation of them.

If you could find an insurer whose insurance was only valid when the
insured was wearing a seat belt or helmet (as appropriate), then you
could be paying for insurance *without* paying for the problems of
self-abusers.

This is not a problem for legislation.  (Almost nothing is.)

Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Int'l Corp., Product Development
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