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- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: ca.driving
- Subject: Re: Change in enforcement policy. (was Re: new law)
- Message-ID: <44034@zygot.ati.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 00:59:54 GMT
- References: <13758@optilink.COM> <44033@zygot.ati.com> <1993Jan3.031852.22013@netcom.com>
- Organization: Green Hills and Cows
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- In article <1993Jan3.031852.22013@netcom.com> altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay) writes:
-
- >It also cheapens freedom when you start arguing about such trivial stuff
- >as being infringements on freedom. We've gotten society to the point
- >where we can barely feel safe in our own homes and you worry about whether
- >or not you can be fined for not wearing seatbelts is an intrusion on your
- >personal freedom.
-
- Where do you think "loss of freedom" starts? Freedoms are given up one
- at a time. Apparently, by the time YOU think it has gone too far, it
- may be too late. You are defending one cliche with another: "We can't
- even feel safe in our homes..." Presumably, you feel that this
- observation justifies the progressive surrender of personal freedoms so
- that "society" can feel secure.
-
- You may feel that the decision to wear a seatbelt is a trivial matter.
- So where do YOU draw the line? What, to you, is an important enough
- liberty that you would object when it is taken away? And what makes you
- think that it might be important enough for someone else to care
- sufficiently to help you do anything about it?
-
- The issue is not whether I want to wear a seatbelt or not. For the
- record, I have always worn it, even before the government told me that
- I had to. The issue is whether we are going to have the government
- dictate every move we make no matter what, if any, impact it has on
- someone else. I am not interested in living in a prison without bars.
-
- I would think twice about dismissing as trivial a matter of personal
- safety that the government has seen fit to devote resources
- and require the paying of significant fines in an attempt to enforce
- it. Obviously, the government does not consider it a minor matter.
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