Posted on 03/14/2005 8:24:05 PM PST by Badray
I think Chuck makes a really good point.
We claim to be conservative except when it comes to our own pet peeve. Then we want to get the government involved.
With all of the exceptions, there isn't room left for common sense and individual liberty.
Who dictates what makes a "conservative"?
For example, seat belts in cars save lives. I'm pro-life. I support seat belts.
You are pro-life so you need the Government to tell you when to buckle up?
I don't get it. Do you want government control or not?
A lot of libs call up shows and claim to be conservatives or Republicans in an effort to make people think there is a tide in the leftward direction.
When it comes to saving lives, government should involve itself - as long as it is honest and upfront.
All this bumph about tobacco, and then governments collecting millions in tobacco taxes in double standards at its best.
I think it makes good sense to wear a safety belt but the only reason for safety belt laws is another source of revenue for greedy local governments.
Getting people to wear their safety belts should be like manners.
The biggest problem with government legislating good sense is they do it in a ham-fisted one-size-fits-all sort of way that doesn't make good sense. Look what happened when they legislated air bags.
I wish you'd told my brothr-in-law about that two weeks ago.
If he'd been wearing a seat belt, he would not have been thrown from his car and, subsequently, would not be now buried in a grave.
Seat-belts also make us drive recklessly. If there was a dagger coming out of the steering wheel instead of an air-bag, we would drive more carefully and there would be less deaths.
Seat belts save the driver, the other people in the car, and the people in other cars due to the added control it gives the driver. I'm all for seat belt laws, as lines have to be drawn somewhere. Driving is a privilege and a responsibility. Do you disagree with licenses also? Seat belts are just another means of ensuring road safety for everyone.</
Silly question. Me, of course. LOL
For example, seat belts in cars save lives. I'm pro-life. I support seat belts.
Seat belts can save lives. Lots of times they do. Sometimes they kill people. Should you be mandated to wear a selt belt when it might kill you? Should the government be your nanny?
Let the government inform people. Free people should make their own decisions without penalty for it.
We have had compulsory wearing of seat belts in Australia for thirty years. In that time thousands of lives have been saved. Well worth it by any standard.
Apparently they sign up in droves on conservative web sites and do the same thing. Especially on FR. ;-)
You're not suggesting I'm a leftie, are you?
Welcome to FR.
Do conservatives not believe in small, unobtrusive government and individual liberty too?
If you smoke down feathers to relieve your migraines, is it anyone's business but your own? Why should anyone care if I actually get relief or if I just get high before I die. What are you gonna do? Put my dead body in jail for smkoking a joint on my death bed?
Part of 'conserving' the past is the liberty that we all once enjoyed to do things that adversely affected no one.
Most of what will be said here has been said there.
God didnt create one magical plant to give an excuse to install Big Government to ban it
I am sorry for your loss. Last year, two of my cousins were in a pretty bad wreck. Bruce, the younger one, always wore his seat belt. Walt, the older, stubborn one (like me) never wore his. We buried Bruce. Walt walked away with scratches and bruises.
I don't know if the seat belt killed him, but that incident reinforced my decision not to wear one.
bttt
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