Unfortunately in today's litigous climate, and in no-fault states such
as Michigan (where my insurance pays my bills, your insurance pays
yours) you could still try to sue me even if the accident was your
fault.  If you weren't wearing your belt, then your damages would be
much greater, and you might blame those additional damages on me as
well.  It may seem far fetched, but stranger cases have gone to court
and won.

-Adam

Robert B. wrote:

>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.
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