RE: Mandatory voting
March 27, 2015 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2015 at 9:55 am by Dystopia.)
(March 27, 2015 at 9:51 am)popeyespappy Wrote: Driving without seat belts costs everyone money in the form of increased medical expenses, insurance costs and taxes. Don't want to wear a seat belt? Fine, walk. Don't want to walk? Then wear your fucking seat belt, and don't ask me to pay for your stupidity.My issue isn't really money costs - It's that most people don't live isolated - They have a family, job, etc, and constitute a resource to society - I'm sure some people drive with the seatbelt on anyway, but paying a fine works as a good reminder. From an ultra-individualist perspective you could easily argue from wearing no seatbelts, but people don't live isolated, and I'm sure a few lives have been spared thanks to the "paternalistic" state. Roads were you circulate are provided by the State so you abide by the rules - The State has responsibility to the individual (and just not the other way around) and should protect citizens when possible
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