Laws regarding seatbelts and cigarettes

[mlmooney89]

Now in Australia you can buy both booze and smokes STILL, but what they don't do is put adult products in the same store that a kid would be allowed in, not even beer.

That sounds terribly inconvenient lol. I already get irritated that I have to go to another store to buy gin, I'd be super white trash pissed if I had to buy my beer in another store.

I agree, honestly. If I want to be stupid and kill myself by not wearing a seat belt that's my right. Though cars nowadays beep relentlessly when you don't, so you sort of have to anyways.

One of the reasons I've seen discussed, one that's honestly pretty damn convincing too, is that someone else gets to scrape you off the highway, and that someone else may suffer greatly for having to do so.

We don't live in a bubble.  A gruesome roadway death does not happen in isolation.  Other human beings (often first responders) have to pry smashed up people out of cars, clean up mangled corpses, and suffer the mental health issues that come with seeing, smelling, and touching all of that.  Not only that but think of the trauma caused to other innocent motorists.  Those that see it and perhaps others in the same accident, through no fault of their own.  Poor little Jimmy not only was injured through the fault of driver A driving recklessly, but then saw driver A's bloody corpse tossed down the roadway, and now needs counseling and does poorly in school due to PTSD.  

I'm not just making this up.  It has happened to people.  So that's one reason seatbelts are mandatory.

Yes and one of their names is Tony Rodriguez and I worry about him constantly. He seems indestructible but sometimes when he gets drunk he cries over the children he couldn't save.

The exact same thing that happened anyway. I busted out two windows with my head and nearly went through the windshield.

I imagine you would have been flying out of the windshield without one .But wasn't there so not going to state that as a fact .

The windshield stopped me from going through it. Regardless, my seatbelt shouldn't have broke.

I am willing to bet that the snapping of the seat belt slowed you down enough to not go all the way through the window. Should it have snapped? No. Did it keep you from ending up outside of the car? Most likely.