No, YOU ARE being absurd. Your own statement....
"It is very rare that an act of lethal stupidity affects only the actor"
....backs up EXACTLY what I said!
"EVERYTHING affects everything else"
Then you say "no it doesn't". BS. Technically, every single thing I do affects something else. Your kind of thinking however, threatens to elevate the importance of these intangible domino effects.
I will state the seat-belt thing again. Sorry for not having QUITE enough time to read ALL of what you and everyone else wrote. Deal with it. It's common on forums.
Nanny-staters who worry so much about "safety" posit the idea that insurance costs will go up if not, as a reason to force people to wear seat belts. I.e., you 200 miles from me not wearing your seat belt has a trickle-down effect of costing me money down the road.
Such reasoning is twistedly absurd.
"No, YOU ARE being absurd."
You don't see the difference between my assertion, "Our actions affect those close to us," and your assertion that "EVERYTHING affects everything else?"
"Technically, every single thing I do affects something else."
You don't see the difference between affecting "something" else and affecting "everything" else?
"Your kind of thinking however, threatens to elevate the importance of these intangible domino effects."
I think you meant to say "butterfly effects." Be that as it may, my statement deals not with intangibles, but with the concrete, visible effects behavior has in the immediate vicinity of the actor.
"It's common on forums."
It's not very common on this forum.
"Such reasoning is twistedly absurd."
No, the problem is not with the reasoning. Conservatives agree with the reasoning, but hold that freedom is so important that we should accept the cost. Nanny staters hold that safety is more important than freedom.