Safety vs Freedom: Should Adults be Forced to Wear Seatbelts?

[Hosakawa Tito]

If insurance companies made seat belt use a condition for reimbursement of medical treatment for accidents, would you wear a seatbelt? Repeal the seatbelt mandate and that is what would probably happen.

This is nonsense. Government forces us to obey the rules of the road so we dont all die in accidents because people can't decide properly who should go first at the intersection. They force us to stop at red lights, such tyranny! According to you, I guess we should be allowed to run any red light we want?

The government also forces us to go to school until we are at least 16-18 years old! I guess I should have called my congressman about the tyranny I was facing when I hated school in 8th grade and couldn't drop out.


Except for the whole military thing. Also that whole thing with the cops...and the firemen...



Is that how it was before the seatbelt mandate?

To my knowledge, insurance companies did not refuse coverage before seatbelt use became mandatory by law. But then, drinking & driving wasn't anything more than a small fine if it was enforced at all. For good reason, that has all changed now. Ask any patrolman or EMT and they'll tell you that seatbelts are very effective in saving lives. So, as far as this redneck is concerned they should be mandatory.

I'm sympathetic to repeal of seat belt law, with this kind of personal responsibility to act as a deterrent in place of legal repercussions. The one problem I see is that raised by BG and Strike: there will still be a greater burden on the taxpayer and more pressure on emergency medical services. To that degree the public good must be balanced against the private freedom.

Ajax

And here's a great arguement for why seatbelt use should remain a requirement. By law, people cannot be denied medical treatment at the ER for inability to pay, so the cost will just be passed to taxpayers anyway. Seatbelt use will lessen these costs & burdens so it makes sense to encourage and mandate their use.

HoreTore

Re: Safety vs Freedom: Should Adults be Forced to Wear Seatbelts?
This has got to be the most irrelevant "issue" the world has ever seen.


This is how rednecks stand up to "the man".

Bite me.