[Hardastarboard]

This is about the insurance companies' profits, like most of the laws that have been passed in the last fifty years. Whether or not seat belts reduce death rates, they definitely reduce injuries, which saves the insurance companies money. And that, my friend, is more important that any delusions you may have about freedom.

On another note, my mechanic refuses to ever wear a seat belt, and law enforcement be damned. He got trapped in a burning car once, and couldn't get out because the seat belt jammed. Kind of hard to argue with him about that.

[muawiyah]

Insurance companies all make money on their investments. None of them make any money writing policy. It's pretty generally a cost passthrough situation.