[quote=Goldmarble]
Goes on to a lot more things than just seat belts. Seat belt laws are just a tiny fraction of the things that bother me with the idea of our current authoritarian styles of government.I did not want to bring up larger, more polarizing issues in a thread not about them, so please, take your petty sarcasm with you.
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Then please, by all means enlighten us in regards to these other issues you speak of. It's not our fault you keep sticking to seat-belts. We've countered your arguments in regards to that already, several times. I wasn't sure how to respond to it a third time, so I made a sarcastic remark. It's not like I came in the topic with nothing but sarcasm in defense of my views. No, I told you how I felt about it. Some of the others did too. But all you've argued is "It is my right to not wear seat-belts because FREEDOM!". We've already argued that's selfish, among other things. But you maintain that your right to reject seat-belts, even at the expense of others, is sacred.

If you want this discussion to go beyond sarcastic remarks, I think at this point you're going to have to give your seat-belt rebellion a break and bring up an issue that enables a better argument on your behalf. If seat-belts are a "tiny fraction of the things that bother you", then why is it still the basis of your argument? I mean, for someone who claims they wear seat-belts anyway, you're really defensive about it.

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[quote=mdk]
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I'm in favor of drug legalization too. The government shouldn't tell you what to put in your body, unless it somehow begins to affect others, which is my point here. Not wearing a seat-belt is a risk to you, and others. As someone mentioned before, passengers who aren't wearing seat-belts (because they're part of the seat-belt rebellion movement, maybe) risk injuring or even killing others inside of the vehicle with their bodies. And, someone in the front seat of a car can be ejected through the front and hit someone. You can say that's unlikely, sure, but it's possible. And it's putting your life, as well as someone else, in danger.

As I mentioned before, even if it's unlikely, it doesn't mean there shouldn't be preventive/safety measures. There are preventive measures on every-day things. And I guarantee you people would flip shit if something happened and it was revealed that preventive measures existed but weren't practiced.