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

[ajaxfetish]

Why did CR pick seatbelts and not drink-driving? People actually want to drink-drive (and they do it) even though they could be fined or serve prison time.

OP should have made this clear to you:

and that failing to wear a seatbelt can only result in injury to yourself, not anyone else.

One of the premises of his argument is that the risk-taker is the only potential victim. That point has been argued in the thread, but you couldn't really begin to make a case for it with drunk driving, now could you?

Ajax

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

OP should have made this clear to you:

One of the premises of his argument is that the risk-taker is the only potential victim. That point has been argued in the thread, but you couldn't really begin to make a case for it with drunk driving, now could you?

Ajax

That premise is wrong, as has been noted, an unbelted passenger is a loose canon; quite litterally.

So that argument can be dismissed. Wearing a seatbelt is then clearly no different than obeying the speed limit, which is also "a personal choice".

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yep, entertaining such an alternative reality you can see how, after an unfortunate drunk driving mishap with a speeding car, a personal choice could very well have changed our lives. Three personal choices and a butchered signature, in fact.

[gaelic cowboy]

When you apply for a driver's licence are you not undertaking to obey the rules of the road.