MaggieD
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How in the hell did I straw it up and it wasn't my comparison. Read the damn thread for once. This is the second stupid mistake you made here.
What?
I still don't see how you can enforce seat belts in cars and allow motorcycles on the road. It's an oxymoron.
Back to that cost-benefit thingie.
That's part of the reason, but that's not the whole justification.
We tried that, we all know what happened.
A better analogy for the seat belt argument would be if we got rid of drunk driving laws.
Edit: at the end of the day, seat belt laws are more about safety than anything else. That's how I see it.
Laws can't fix stupidity, just having a law doesn't guarantee seat belt usage.
So even though the government created the roads we drive on, they shouldn't be allowed to create the rules that we have to obey when we are on the road?
Oh, please, don't even start with that.
The cost would be very minimal. Banning motorcycles would cost very little in terms of enforcement.
For the second time - the cost you consider is to the individual, not the government, and it's not just in monetary terms. Banning motorcycles would be very very costly to motorcyclists.
That's retarded. I pay taxes, I can gain access to any of that even if I don't wear a seatbelt. It's not the government's job to protect me from me. I don't wear a helmet when on my motorcycle for instance. I hate my helmet, it sucks ass. If I wreck and die, I paid taxes and they can hose my body off the road. but it ain't the government's place to say I can't. There should be no seat belt laws.
With this reasoning we may as well allow people to drink and drive. After all the right to hurting yourself trumps how you may hurt others, right?
Those people are just ignorant of the facts about restraints and other safety devices.Exactly. I know a neighbor who refuses to wear a seatbelt and he once told me that when he sees a policeman he pulls it across himself until he passes then lets it retract back. He finds them uncomfortable. His mentality is not unlike some of the comments in this forum. :shock:
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Those people are just ignorant of the facts about restraints and other safety devices.
There should be no seat belt laws.
You can't be serious.The cost would be very minimal. Banning motorcycles would cost very little in terms of enforcement. Jobs lost by motorcycle manufacturing and sales would be moved over into the car industry. The benefits would be increased safety and fewer severe injuries driving up the costs of healthcare. Seems to me, if you have the mindset that the government's job is to make the world as safe as possible, banning motorcycles is an easy no-brainer. They have got to be far more dangerous than just not wearing a seatbelt.
I am against seatbelt and helmet laws. Let the stupid people that refuse to wear them die before they reproduce and spread their "stupid" gene.
There have been instances where people have died because they were wearing a set belt. Trapped in a fire or underwater, etc. I also once read about a specific accident where a person was saved because they weren't wearing a seat belt and got thrown clear from the vehicle and would have been crushed to death had they been wearing a seat belt. Yes, these things do indeed happen. These are referred to as anecdotes, and the numbers in which they happen are far below the numbers of instances where seat belts actually did save lives.
This was the beginning of our loss of personal choice and no one said anything...step by step more rights are taken away until the government makes all our choices for us and we then don gray uniforms and hats.
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