What is the main reason people don't wear seat belts?

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• Read my license plate - Live Free or Die. Okay, maybe Live Free AND die, but you get the point. If knuckling to laws instead of fighting for freedom wasn't worth risking our lives, we'd still be a British colony. Besides, if the government can't protect me from terrorists or TB, why should they even legislate mandatory seatbelts/helmets? Why not let Darwinism handle it?

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  by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on June 1st, 2007

• Well said jervinator!!!

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  by NightOwl on June 1st, 2007

• There aren't enough accedents for darwinism to take care of it. and anyway, modern medicine kind of eliminates darwinism in humans.

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  by KevinW42 on June 1st, 2007

• My feelings on modern medicine artificially prolonging life in utter defiance of Nature and thereby diluting the gene pool and weakening our species as a whole would make an interesting diversion if I chose to rant about them at length.

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  by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on June 1st, 2007

• Let's back up a step or 2, 8Jan. - did you take a driving/written test to get a driver's license?
  
  And the costs of medical treatment / rehabilitation / property restoration have nothing at all to do with Darwinism.

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  by canoeguide on May 27th, 2011

• Ok but if the medical costs to society justify seatbelt laws then shouldn't they justify government control of every meal we eat and mean tickets given to fatties every time they get caught in public being fat? After all, there's far, far more expense due to heart disease than there is to traffic accidents.

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  by TheGrimReefer on May 27th, 2011

• False comparison. Everyone must eat, not everyone must drive - or even ride.

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  by canoeguide on May 27th, 2011

• Everyone must travel, by foot or by other means such as vehicle.
  Everyone must eat, and they can eat good stuff or crap.
  
  So if we can fine people who are driving then why can't we fine people who are eating out?

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  by TheGrimReefer on May 28th, 2011

• Seat belts apply to those on foot? You're still reaching for it.

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  by canoeguide on May 29th, 2011

• I'm saying that moving or eating are not choices but it is a choice to eat out or to travel by car so if your justification for seatbelts laws is that no one is forced to drive then my justification for ticketing fatties who are eating junk is that no one is forced to eat out.

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  by TheGrimReefer on May 29th, 2011