Reply #116: I think it can be argued

[Pithlet]

that enough car accidents happen that seatbelt laws are not unreasonable. Of course you have to draw the line somewhere. I do believe that there absolutely has to be a reason to restrict things. Laws shouldn't be passed just for the hell of it. Too many unecessary laws that restrict us in a bunch of petty ways would be awful. I'm certainly not advocating that. If, indeed, failure to wear a seatbelt posed no danger to others, then I would absolutely be agasinst such a law. It would be an unnecessry restriction. But, I do think that the pro-seatbelt law side of the argument has demonstrated that the benefits to the restriction outweigh the imposition that such a restriction poses.

In otherwords, putting on your seatbelt isn't such an imposition that it justifies leaving off a law that WILL save lives. I do wear my seatbelt anyway. I just don't think that my "right" to decide that is worth all the lives, all the heartache, all the bills, all the taxpayers money, that it costs to NOT have the law. Does that make sense? Those that say "To hell with all the people that will die, I want to have the choice to do something I was going to do anyway?" I don't understand that.