(July 18, 2018 at 2:54 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: I really wish there was some level of consistency in the way the government makes laws regarding seatbelts and cigarettes. Currently seatbelts are mandatory while it's legal to buy/sell cigarettes.
Either:
1) Allow us to make poor decisions that may end up killing us by removing all laws that require one to wear a seatbelt and permitting people to freely buy/sell cigarettes
OR
2) Forbid us from making poor life/death decisions by requiring people to wear seatbelts and banning the sale of cigarettes.
Why is there a double standard with respect to these 2 issues?
Seatbelts and cigarettes, what an odd conflation. Why not seatbelts and alcohol, or seatbelts and guns?
If you are doing 77mph (UK) and for whatever reason you get into a swerve and not belted in, then you are not in control of the car and you can easily take out... how many other cars?
A petrol taker behind you breaks hard to avoid you and hit's a bus load of kids?
Car driver + seatbelt + concrete bridge = hospital.
Car driver - seatbelt + concrete bridge = undertakers.
Only a total prick drives without fastening the belt.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
