Comment by burnte
7 months ago
> I am against government mandates in regards to seatbelts.
No one cares, you don't have a good enough reason. It's ok to have some kinds of mandates. I don't want my tax dollars going to pay EMS and police to shovel your remains off the highway because you wanted to drive like an idiot.
This has got to be the absolute worst argument in favor of seatbelts, and will only ever amount to preaching to the authoritarian choir. For everyone else your argument actually serves to undermine support for public services like first responders - if the societal cost of such services includes the legislating of personal behavior simply to keep the financial cost of said services down, perhaps the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
I really don't care, frankly. I'm just tired of grown adults stamping their feet and yelling "Idawanna!"
Well the harder you push your personal choices as a prescriptive agenda, the more people are going to stamp their feet and yell "Idawanna!". There are plenty of things like this that seriously affect other people (eg that whole mask thing), so I'd recommend spending your credibility on those rather than burning it on things with a tiny blast radius.