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Originally Posted by Lou_Dorchen
As long as you laugh at me for standing up for my freedoms, you're going to get a lecture.
I don't want to kill myself. But I dont want someone telling me what I have to wear in MY car that I bought with MY money that I made by working at MY job. You want someone to run your life, fine. But dont tell me how to live mine.
And as for it being a privelege and thus we have to allow them to dictate how we use it, you've fallen for their bs line. Who pays for the roads? We do. So don't tell me I have to pay for something, then give me all these intrusive rules I have to follow to enjoy what I paid for. You just wait, sooner or later they will come for the rights you value. When they do, remember what you've said here about personal rights.
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It's clear by your statements made here that you care only for your freedoms, and not for your safety and well-being. You don't care if your exercised freedoms kill yourself, or others. You don't care about your family potentially losing you. Okay, that's fair.
I personally do care that I don't leave my son orphaned. I gave up my Harley for this very reason. Sure, I believe in freedom. But I also believe that common-sense and smart-thinking should prevail. So, even though I have the freedom to own and ride a motorcycle, I consciously choose not to, for my own safety, and the security of my young son.
Sounds to my like you choose not to wear a seatbelt, just because "big government" says you must. Yes, you have the freedom to not comply, potentially with consequences to bear. Whatever. It's attitudes like yours that force laws like this in the first place.
I've been in a couple of severe accidents. In both cases, I can safely say that I would have been seriously injured without the use of seatbelts and airbags. If they made it a law that seatbelts be excluded from new cars, well...I'd stop driving.