by Sandman on August 27th, 2008

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Airbags and seatbelts are potential killers.Anyone agree? or disagree?

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by Nelson - Jetpacking from bed on August 27th, 2008
No, inanimate objects cannot have intent and therefore cannot be killers. They could be weapons or tools of harm. They could even be an accidental cause of death or injury. But it takes an action to be a killer.

I also think they save life and limb at a much higher rate than they create injury or death.
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by Im Alec has abandoned this account on August 27th, 2008
Strongly disagree - and statistics have proved it. Of course you ha find freak accidents in which they have done harm, but the number saved is literally hundreds of times the number of those harmed.
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by Firebrand on August 27th, 2008
Anything can be a potential killer

They have saved many thousands of lives.
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by Wulfweard on August 27th, 2008
Maybe but I would rather them than nothing at all
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by krazymike on August 27th, 2008
Yes, but so is a toothpick.
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by The Chief on August 27th, 2008
I assume you mean that airbag and seatbelt use may result in the death of the user in accidents.

The answer to this is YES.

However, these safety items are FAR more likely to prevent death or serious injury than be the cause of it. Properly used, they present the user with a TREMENDOUS buffer against injury. The object is to keep the person safely confined within the shell of the vehicle without letting him bounce off hard objects while the metal structure of the surrounding vehicle absorbs as much energy as possible before any gets through to the passengers.

Almost every person who was in an accident and died wearing a seatbelt (with or without airbags) would invariable have died anyway because of the nature of the accident.

For that 'one-in-a-million' whose life would have been saved had he NOT been wearing his seatbelt (with or without airbags)...well, those are p*ss poor odds to justify telling those other 999,999 NOT to use their safety equipment.

There is an old saying: "The race doesn't always go to the swift, nor the fight to the strong. But that's the way to bet." Don't bet against the odds with your life.
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by Mimi..smiling...there is no Option Two.. on August 27th, 2008
I agree!

Airbags can blow up in your face, explode and burn. If you get trapped on one, you could suffocate.

Seatbelts can jam, so stop you from escaping from a burning vehicle if needs be. They may stop you flying through the windscreen, but they can also break your ribs - it's happened to me! Could puncture a rib, which could pierce your heart... Goodnight Vienna.

I'd still rather have them though!
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- Thanks, Mimi, but not I. My friend had his nose, two fingers, and three ribs broken by an airbag; and my cousin lost her eye to another airbag. Check the statistics: hundreds of people have been disabled, maimed, and/or killed by airbags. A seatbelt broke three of my ribs.
  If they were strongly recommended, or if a voucher were issued to encourage their installation, I wouldn't object QUITE so strongly. But to REQUIRE an apparatus that has the potential to kill, and has killed hundreds --- mostly children, is just plain dead wrong.
  
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  by Sandman on August 27th, 2008
- I've also had three ribs broken by seatbelts, so I sympathise with you - but I was told that if I hadn't had it on, I would have been impaled on the steering wheel - no airbags in that old jalopy.
  As most cars come with them already installed (bags, this is), there's little you can do unless you have them removed - and belts are mandatory.
  Something that frightened me that I saw recently - a tot was in his seat in the back seat of a 4x4, door open. Dad slammed the boot shut, and it must've dislodged a fitting to the chair - the kiddie was hanging half out of the car, about 3' off the ground!
  Very wrong.
  
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  by Mimi..smiling...there is no Option Two.. on August 27th, 2008
- Very wrong indeed, love. That kid could have been killed.
  While I am forced to admit that belts and bags have saved lives, and saved many from injuries, I'm still leery of both.
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  Say, please tell me that's not actually you in the pic, with the metal monster slobbering on your shoulder.
  
  Oh, well.
  
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  by Sandman on August 27th, 2008
- It's not metal... look in my profile... ;)
  
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  by Mimi..smiling...there is no Option Two.. on August 27th, 2008
- OK, then the metal-MASKED monster. But he IS slobbering.
  Or drooling?
  
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  by Sandman on August 27th, 2008
- yeah... revoltin', ain't he? And he's loose!
  
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  by Mimi..smiling...there is no Option Two.. on August 27th, 2008
- Ooooh!
  shudder shudder
  
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  by Sandman on August 31st, 2008
- yeeees... quite. But I have The Hench looking for him, I'm sure he'll be back where he should be before tonight... *nods Sagely*
  
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  by Mimi..smiling...there is no Option Two.. on August 31st, 2008
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by Yarnlady is happy every day on August 27th, 2008
Some people have been killed because of their seatbelts or airbags. However the number of people who have been saved is far greater.

Drinking too much water is a potential killer as well.
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