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Not wearing a seatbelt should be completely legal (once you're over 18). It's stupid, but it should absolutely be legal.
While at it, we should legalize drunk driving. Drunk driving got a bad name in the past because irresponsible drunk drivers were drinking behind the wheel and purposefully running people over. My father drove drunk for 30 years and he was only in 7 car accidents. It’s non sense.
The difference being, of course, that drunk driving has an incredibly high chance of negatively affecting others, while not wearing a seatbelt has an incredibly low chance of negatively affecting others.
I dunno, I think the paramedics find the sight of you stuck in your seat a whole lot nicer than you stuck in the windshield
We shouldn't curtail people's freedom of self determination just because it will make other people have to do their jobs.