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Originally posted by Brian_C6
I will take this back to the healthy food issue. What is the difference between forcing seatbelts on people to control health costs vs. controlling food intake on unhealthy people to control health cost? |
The difference is you can go to the gym to work off that food, and counteract high cholesterol, heart disease, and obesity. There is no way to prepare for or counteract the force throwing your body through your windshield. The food and drug industry is regulated through a number of methods to protect us from being harmed or killed just as seatbelts are made to do the same thing., they're not taking away our cars to keep us away from danger.
Why not have the same open law for helmets? Because morons wouldn't wear them, much like so many squids in NH. I'd rather see a biker with a pouty face and a helmet on than his brain on one side of the street and an emptry skull on the other. And I rather see my sister in the hospital when she crashes her car again than see her at her wake.