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This gets tricky though as you get deeper. Ok you don't want to wear your seatbelt, what about your kids in the car? Does a baby have to sit in a baby seat? If

This gets tricky though as you get deeper. Ok you don't want to wear your seatbelt, what about your kids in the car? Does a baby have to sit in a baby seat? If you don't want to wear a seatbelt, get in an accident and have to get scraped off the sidewalk, what about the person that has to scrape you up? If you are disabled due to the accident, who pays your disability? Who looks after your kids now that you are gone? Society has to shoulder that expense. Does forcing people to wear seatbelts result in a reduced financial burden to others? Interesting questions.

tyleo 6y ago
I feel like adults supervising minors are responsible for their safety. Even now it’s not a minor who is fined if they aren’t wearing a seatbelt, it’s the driver. I find the point about financial burden to society more interesting because it’s hard to articulate a clear test that would indicate whether society is a victim or not. A few others have made the same point as you. I’d love if anyone has ideas here.
ClumsyPilot 6y ago
" If you don't want to wear a seatbelt, get in an accident and have to get scraped off the sidewalk, what about the person that has to scrape you up" What about that person? Also, if financially burdening society is a crime, then we ought to imprison CEOs of tabacco and alcohol companies. What about abundance of sugar in food where it doesn't belong, unhealthy lifestyles, etc. Where is the line that preserves any liberties? And before you say it's obvious, alcohol and McDonald have both ruined more lives than weed ever did.
- wonderwonder 6y ago
  I fully support the legalization of marijuana. Again you have raised interesting questions, at what point does society have the right to impose restrictions on your free will and at what point are people pushing clearly harmful products to willing consumers liable? I don't know the answers, but these are things a society wrestles with all the time as it evolves.

tyleo 6y ago

I feel like adults supervising minors are responsible for their safety. Even now it’s not a minor who is fined if they aren’t wearing a seatbelt, it’s the driver. I find the point about financial burden to society more interesting because it’s hard to articulate a clear test that would indicate whether society is a victim or not. A few others have made the same point as you. I’d love if anyone has ideas here.

ClumsyPilot 6y ago

" If you don't want to wear a seatbelt, get in an accident and have to get scraped off the sidewalk, what about the person that has to scrape you up" What about that person? Also, if financially burdening society is a crime, then we ought to imprison CEOs of tabacco and alcohol companies. What about abundance of sugar in food where it doesn't belong, unhealthy lifestyles, etc. Where is the line that preserves any liberties? And before you say it's obvious, alcohol and McDonald have both ruined more lives than weed ever did.

wonderwonder 6y ago
I fully support the legalization of marijuana. Again you have raised interesting questions, at what point does society have the right to impose restrictions on your free will and at what point are people pushing clearly harmful products to willing consumers liable? I don't know the answers, but these are things a society wrestles with all the time as it evolves.