https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year
My memory/impression is that widespread seatbelt use began in the mid sixties. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, May 12, 2020, 7:57 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > The contrary argument was made to me by my dad, who called himself a > "Goldwater Conservative", was that when you end up as a blood smear all > over the highway or all smashed up against a tree, *someone* has to clean > that sh¡t up. Factor in, further, rubbernecking, the possibility of > children seeing your dismembered body laying in parts on the road as they > drive by, trauma to the poor truck driver who you smashed into who'll have > to live with having killed you for the rest of her life, etc. You MIGHT > save us *all* a lot of money and psychological trauma if you'd simply wear > the seat belt. [†] > > So, you *are* harming others by not wearing a seat belt. > > In the immortal words of teenagers everywhere, it's not about you. >8^D > > [†] Add to that the consideration that human life is *infrastructure*. > Sure if you're a do-nothing wastoid, your death costs us only the above and > may save us money in the long-term. But if you're competent at something, > anything, then WE are all better off if you wear your seat belt. To assert > that you're *not* harming us by not wearing your seat belt seems > extraordinarily self-indulgent. > > On 5/11/20 10:05 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > To be told I was harming others by not wearing a seatbelt feels patently > incorrect. > > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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