Ozymandyus
New Member
It is truly hilarious that you think that. Instead of people choosing to be responsible you are completely removing the possibility of responsibilty! 'It's not up to me to decide whether certain risks are worth taking. I would rather leave it up to the corporations to determine what I can and cannot do than risk maybe incurring a small fine from my government.' This is the EXACT antithesis of the idea of personal responsibility. Instead of making laws that people can choose to break if they want to be idiots, you want to make them physically unable to break them. Should we put chips in people's heads that prevent them from committing crimes too?(Having cars that only start when seat belts are buckled) is not a bad idea, actually.
As for the oversight being your own folly that you should pay for, we are talking about accidents in which seatbelts make a difference. In low speed accidents, they make very little. In high speed accidents, its the difference between death/dismemberment/permanent brain injury and less permanent injuries- in which case you are not going to be paying anyone back, you are going to be a drain on society, chances are. It is your folley, but OTHER PEOPLE PAY. Your family spoon feeds you, or buries you, or pushes your wheelchair, or you get disability, whatever. A few people that do not get seriously injured and didn't wear their seatbelts will be properly punished, but you will be punishing all these other people that did nothing along with those people. How is that a better solution that punishing ONLY people that do not wear seatbelts?