9h ago

Federal Regulators Hold Celebratory Seatbelt-Cutting Ceremony

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Not wearing a seatbelt should be completely legal (once you're over 18). It's stupid, but it should absolutely be legal.
- My wife works in a hospital and receives patients from car crashes. If driving without a seatbelt was legal she would find another job.
  Intact she has worked in a country where no one, even kids are required to wear seatbelts, and she doesn't want to work like that now
  
  Not everyone's cut out to work in medical care - it's a tough field.
- This is like the 3rd or 4th dumb take I've seen come out of lemm.ee users within the past few hours.
  Yall must be migrating from the highly intellectual youtube community section.
  
  At least the other people complaining and downvoting here are bringing actual arguments to the table and engaging in productive dialogue.
  What a useless comment.
- Clearly from a country without socialized healthcare...
  
  Yes, because that's the dangerous activity that causes the most additional load.
  What's the average BMI in your country with socialized healthcare? What are your criteria for which dangerous activities we should and should not be allowed to engage in due to additional load on the medical system?
- No. It also puts the other party's life (in a crash) in danger.
  
  Nope, it doesn't.
  The chances of that happening are so astronomically low as to be completely irrelevant, and it doesn't hold a candle to the violation of personal liberty.
- I'd be for it if they were the only ones who get affected in a crash. What about innocent people who might get hurt from a 90kg projectile? Or the people who have to mop up the mess?
  
  a) the chance is that happening is so low as to be completely irrelevant. Note that you even used "might" when describing this incredibly unlikely event.
  b) that's part of the job, just like gore and dead bodies are part of the job for doctors. Again, this should be discounted entirely, especially when making choices that restrict people's freedom.
- I agree. It is VERY stupid to not wear one, but seatbelt laws in the US were a test of control, not safety.
  Seatbelts are a constitutional violation on personal freedom. Argue all you want, but they are.
  
  which part of the constitution was the seatbelt law supposed to be violating again?
  
  I mean, then so is not allowing people to randomly test nukes on their own property.
  As is every law against suicide or selling clearly harmful chemicals.
  The penalty is a ticket, and rarely enforced, get over your shit.
  
  <3

I know this is the onion but I'm honestly glad for companies like Subaru building in a way to disable the seatbelt chime. When I'm slow rolling a rocky dirt road at 10mph with no one else on it, I feel dumb wearing a seatbelt. Or having the windows up for that matter.
- How are you so insecure that a seatbelt makes you feel dumb?
- Praise be to Subaru for saving you from such a cruel fate. No one should have to feel dumb wearing a seatbelt!

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