I think people who drive without seatbelts deserve what's coming to them.
You drove without a seatbelt and now you're crying. You should have known better. You should have made better choices. You're nothing except an irresponsible wanton seatbelt derelict.
How can you expect people to sympathize with you when you knowingly got in your car and drove without a seatbelt? You forgot? Your seatbelt malfunctioned? What a bunch of crap. You broke the law; you chose to break the natural law of good driving that says 'Click it or ticket.' You and that Gary Busey (who doesn't want to wear a helmet) - all you individual rights whiners, 'i wanna feel unrestricted'- well, all you 'this is my life' freaks need to shut up and toe the line.
And what gets me is all these people who want to make 'safe driving' part of our curriculum. Drivers Ed - give me a break! There is no 'safe' driving. Encouraging 'safe' driving encourages irresponsibility and a reliance on untested methods - like so-called 'defensive driving.' Just wear your seatbelt.
I mean, it's consequences, man. You drive without a seatbelt and - wham! You know what's coming. Don't whine. Don't cavil. You deserve it. Natural consequences.
This world would be so much better if people just suffered a natural disincentive for their actions...
[insanity via bitch phd]
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If sex ed encourages kids to have sex, then Spanish class should encourage kids to learn Spanish......
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Obviously the premise is a fallacy.
oh that's just classic. what a great parallel! except of course for a minor detail . . .
typically if i got in an *accident* for not wearing my seatbelt, i may be able to blame a host of people -parents, peers, teachers, maybe even myself- but i'm not going to take the life of someone else because i didn't wear my *seatbelt*. interesting how it wouldn't make any sense to do that, huh? things that make you go hmmm. . . . .
well, sometimes, when you don't wear a seatbelt and get in an accident, you do take a life.
that could be another one of those cause/effect things. my point is that the rhetoric is often simplistic and unthoughtful.
of course people who shun seatbelts don't deserve what they get. they're in an accident but they're generally not ruined because of that; they have insurance to fix their accidents.
i just think everyone should have at least the option of insurance.
and indeed, jp, it is a fallacy.
i think 'ambiguous middle' and/or 'equivocation' could work here.
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