No, no, no, no, NO.
The Florida Senate has passed a measure that toughens the state’s seat belt law.
The Senate voted 33-4 Tuesday to pass the Dori Slosberg and Katie Marchetti Safety Belt Law named in the memory of two young women killed in accidents while not wearing seat belts.
It has been my contention since I was a teenager (ergo possessing of a barely-functional forebrain) that the government has zero say in a person’s method of self-destruction, and in 20+ years of driving (and a few car accidents, some my fault and some not), that stance hasn’t changed one bit. If people are not capable of connecting the lack of a seatbelt to near-certain death in an automobile accident, then no one, least of all the sodding GOVERNMENT, has a say in that.
At the risk of dispelling the fuzzy-bunny illusions of some, we are not doing our species any favors by working so very hard to preserve those incapable of preserving themselves.
But we have higher brain functions! We’re not animals! Every human life is PRECIOUSSSSS!!!!
Yeah? And how’s that working out for us, eh?
Woof!
MLG
April 29th, 2009
I’m with you as long as none of my taxes go to support medical costs for those who value the “right not to wear a seat belt” …
pete in Midland
April 29th, 2009
@pete in Midland: And that’s how shit goes and gets complicated.
Liberty Girl
April 29th, 2009
LOL I was JUST stating this very thing in-office yesterday. “Stop saving stupid people!”
Someone laughed and said “I can’t believe you said that right out-loud”
LauraB
April 29th, 2009
Stupid people. We get our money’s worth out of them in entertainment, usually, or email scams for enzyte. I’d rather stupid people get subsidized from time to time, (there, but for the grace of god, etc.) than useless people being subsidized for life.
Joan of Argghh!
April 29th, 2009
I knew I married the right woman when she said: “Seatbelt and helmet laws just allow the stupid to breed a better generation of idiot.”
Stretch
April 29th, 2009
It’s true, you CAN’T fix stupid, and I couldn’t agree more with you on this LG.
I also think if you don’t want to wear a helmet on a motorcycle that’s your bidness as well. I’m very libertarianish on this shit.
dogette
April 29th, 2009
It wasn’t Kansas motor vehicle law that made me put on a seat belt, it was Newton’s first law and the evidence of the aftermath when that law is broken.
top of the chain
April 29th, 2009
@top of the chain:
Yeah, I only did it because I have MLG/kids and they kind of want me to live. Came to appreciate the habit a couple of years ago.
Liberty Girl
April 29th, 2009
To accept the contention that one of the jobs of government is to save people from themselves is to embrace the primary tenant of serfdom- your life is no longer your own.
toaster
May 2nd, 2009