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- From: calley@optilink.COM (Chris Calley)
- Newsgroups: ca.driving
- Subject: Change in enforcement policy. (was Re: new law)
- Message-ID: <13758@optilink.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 20:09:57 GMT
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- From article <474@vega.iii.com>, by rhockins@enrico.tmc.edu (Russell Hockins):
- >
- > If someone does not want to wear their seat belt, that is fine with me.
- > Let natural selection take its course and remove them from the gene pool.
- > :=).
- >
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- > | Russell Hockins | This civilization is recyclable |
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- I guess a five year old child whose parents did not buckle him/her in deserves to
- be removed from the gene pool. Or isn't that what you meant?
-
- Nobody likes to be told what to do. But the seat belt law is a good law for at
- least two reasons that I can think of:
-
- 1. It attempts to protect passengers, especially children, whose idiot parents
- would otherwise not use seat belts for their children.
-
- 2. Automobile injuries and fatalities impact all of our insurance rates as well
- as health care costs. If a seat belt saves a life, or if it reduces the level
- of injury we might all be able to save some money.
-
-
- The "natural selection" argument in this context is ludicrous. Do you really
- believe that the human gene pool would be helped by non-seat belt users dying
- off? Somehow I don't think that you have completely thought this through.
-
- BTW, the seat belt law has been around since approx. 1986. The only change
- is in the CHPs (and possibly other agencies) enforcement policies.
-
-
- --
- Christopher A. Calley - all opinions are my own... etc.
- email: calley@optilink.com
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