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

[Husar]

(as long as it is not hurting OTHER people)

So you didn't watch the ad that was posted above where the one guy not using the seatbelt got three people in the car killed?

How can you decide seatbelts should be mandated, then how can you allow motorcycles to be ridden? Seems to me that riding those is much more dangerous than not wearing a seatbelt in a car.

This ties in nicely with the endangering of others, if the motorcyclist crashes into a truck for example, he will only get himself killed, trucks are also very dangerous vehicles by the way, often not for the driver but for everyone else, if the driver of the truck has to wear a seatbelt he will have to live with what he has done though instead of taking the easy way out (out of the truck and out of life). Since helmets are mandatory here on motorcycles, you could say it comes down to ensuring a relatively high security standard relative to what is possible on the vehicle you're riding.

If you don't wear seatbeltsin the back, the force of a crash can propel the person forward and such is the force,, it is as if an elephant was in the backside and that the person in front will either get crushed or go through the front window.

I'd say if an elephant was in the backside, the force the person would get crushed with would be significantly higher, as such these comparisons often make little sense.