[TheThinker]

Licensing of drivers and pilots is within Constitutional requirements. In a situation where one citizen could jeopardize the safety of others, there should be safeguards.Now, where the government forces someone to protect themselves such as wear a seatbelt, is not Constitutional as one's person is one's own responsibility and should not be infringed upon.

[Leisler]

Odd. I can, and Americans can since time immemorial, go out, build a two hundred foot ship and pilot it anywhere, if it is mine, no papers needed.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Now, where the government forces someone to protect themselves such as wear a seatbelt, is not Constitutional as one's person is one's own responsibility and should not be infringed upon.

Why? Studies show that people not wearing seat belts cause more damage to other people on the road, mostly because when an accident starts, they lose control easier. Plus, if passengers don't wear seat belts, they get killed by drivers. I would argue that the seat belt law saves more lives than the drivers license law (without evidence, it's just my feeling).

If the state has the authority to tell me I can't be driving a car on their roads without a license, they certainly have the authority to tell me I can't be driving a car on their roads without seat belts, or holding a cell phone, or eating and drinking, or listening to the radio, or having a conversation with someone in my car, or with my child sitting in the front seat, or in a car without an air bag, or whatever other stupid rule they think protects me from my own apparently stupid self.