[capt. norm]

Seat belts do help and that is a fact you cannot ignore and remain honest.

Right, but it should be a choice and not a law enforced by armed agents of the government.

If I want to go outside in my underwear in below-zero weather, that's dangerous, but I don't need a law to keep me from doing it.

The point you seem to miss is that the government keeps intruding into our lives incrementally and in places they shouldn't. There are already too many laws on the books protecting me from myself.

[BlueStateDepression]

If I want to go outside in my underwear in below-zero weather, that's dangerous, but I don't need a law to keep me from doing it.

I live by a school, there indeed is a law against doing that kind of thing.

Maybe you missed my point. Lets remove the government intrusion into our lives and simply make cars that requie seat belts. Then the revenue generation argument is removed and everyone will be held to the very same standard. Maybe if more people did the right thing more often the government would not be able to make the case to pass these kinds of laws eh???