till you have a traffic accident become brain damaged and a burden on society and those around you. Or you get catapulted out of the car and die ruining the life of the other person in the accident. there are any number of reasons why seatbelts affect people other than those wearing them. my philosophy, you can do whatever you want so long as it dosent negativly impact sombody else. being a burden on society negativly impacts me though, keep that in mind the government seems to need to legislate in cases where common sense proves yet again to be not as common as we would hope. -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Robert B. Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:32 AM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: [OT]: detecting emergency vehicles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Toft" > I mean, for crying out loud it's > an offence (in most states) to drive without a seatbelt on (the one part of the > car that's specific role is to save your butt in a wreck) yet, if you aren't > wearing it, the cop can't stop you. I'm very thankful that they can't stop me if I choose not to wear a seatbelt. Government's job isn't to protect me from myself. I wear one anyway due to the obvious safety enhancements, but the idea of it being mandated really rubs me wrong. Now for children or non-adults I think its a wise law to require them, so that they may some day grow old enough to make their own decisions. But mandating a thinking, voting, draftable adult to do something solely for the purpose of bettering roadside death statistics seems like an over-reaching law to me. By all means publish the studies, issue safety alerts, or whatever else - just don't pass it into law. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads