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Topic	Should seatbelts be mandatory?
Smarkil 12/20/20 1:04:49 AM #38:	man101 posted... If you fly off your motorcycle and end up in a coma rather than having a few scrapes and bruises, you're draining resources from society. Even if you have health insurance preventing you from being accountable for the cost of your hospital stay that doesn't mean the taxpayers aren't covering it. I would rather my tax dollars go towards something productive and not medical expenses for people who chose to not follow common sense safety measures. Not to mention the hospital staff who need to attend to you when they could be trying to save the life of someone who is dying through no fault of their own. If you're willing to sign a waiver that says you incur 100% of the cost of any injury sustained when not following safety rules and that you volunteer to forfeit your hospital bed the moment another patient comes in, then by all means, ride without a helmet. But you don't live in a vacuum and the consequences of your poor choices don't only affect your health. Wear a god damn helmet because you're not cool or edgy or badass for being reckless. Okay, now make every person that visits McDonalds sign the waiver. Because if you're going to argue that my willingly riding a motorcycle makes me a risk for 'draining resources' then you sure as fuck better extend that same courtesy to every fat person in the world. Or smokers. Or drinkers. Or anyone that makes poor decisions. Because legislating people on the spurious notion that they MIGHT become a drain on resources is insane and not a world I'm thrilled about living in. Oh and I wanna be clear about something given the topic at hand. I'm more okay with mask mandates than I am with seatbelt or helmet laws. I don't like the idea that masks should be required by law and I may disagree with the idea of a law based upon my personal ethics, but at least masks make an appreciable and measurable difference and that not wearing a mask has measured effect on others. I wear masks and I wear helmets and whatever else because I'm a normal human being who cares about my own well being and others well being in so far as I have the chance to affect change. But willing adding more weapons in the governments arsenal of bullshit tools to fine and harm its own citizens is dumb as shit. --- I promise that if the game stinks I will make a topic about how I hate it and you can all laugh at me - Mead on Fallout 76 <cite>Smarkil posted [p:948551256] in Should sea... [t:79184813]...</cite> <quote>man101 posted... </cite> <quote> If you fly off your motorcycle and end up in a coma rather than having a few scrapes and bruises, you're draining resources from society. Even if you have health insurance preventing you from being accountable for the cost of your hospital stay that doesn't mean the taxpayers aren't covering it. I would rather my tax dollars go towards something productive and not medical expenses for people who chose to not follow common sense safety measures. Not to mention the hospital staff who need to attend to you when they could be trying to save the life of someone who is dying through no fault of their own. If you're willing to sign a waiver that says you incur 100% of the cost of any injury sustained when not following safety rules and that you volunteer to forfeit your hospital bed the moment another patient comes in, then by all means, ride without a helmet. But you don't live in a vacuum and the consequences of your poor choices don't only affect your health. Wear a god damn helmet because you're not cool or edgy or badass for being reckless.</quote> Okay, now make every person that visits McDonalds sign the waiver. Because if you're going to argue that my willingly riding a motorcycle makes me a risk for 'draining resources' then you sure as fuck better extend that same courtesy to every fat person in the world. Or smokers. Or drinkers. Or anyone that makes poor decisions. Because legislating people on the spurious notion that they MIGHT become a drain on resources is insane and not a world I'm thrilled about living in. Oh and I wanna be clear about something given the topic at hand. I'm more okay with mask mandates than I am with seatbelt or helmet laws. I don't like the idea that masks should be required by law and I may disagree with the idea of a law based upon my personal ethics, but at least masks make an appreciable and measurable difference and that not wearing a mask has measured effect on others. I wear masks and I wear helmets and whatever else because I'm a normal human being who cares about my own well being and others well being in so far as I have the chance to affect change. But willing adding more weapons in the governments arsenal of bullshit tools to fine and harm its own citizens is dumb as shit. --- I promise that if the game stinks I will make a topic about how I hate it and you can all laugh at me - Mead on Fallout 76 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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