Welcome to Big Brother land.
What is next? Condom laws? I can just picture the cop writing the citation now...
"You wearin a rubber son?- No!? I am afraid I will have to cite you for a violation of section 6969 of the sexual contact code..."
Think about it... Unplanned parenthood has an effect on society, and healthcare costs too- Society better step up And make sure everyone having sex outside of wed-lock is rubberizing or you all might see a tax increase to subsidize the unplanned children!
The average Joe Schmoe shouldn't be able to make a decision that is going to affect me! What if he doesn't pull out in time?!?!?! There ought to be a law!
Or maybe
that is going too far?
Where is "far enough" that we might determine "too far"?
Why does the government feel the need to protect me from myself?
Maybe the govenment should mind it's own business? Leave me with the consequences of my actions too...
I am willing to accept responsibility for my choices.
That isn't the way it is though is it? Nope! And it is never going to change either.
For this reason I hate seatbelt laws too- Why must the government go so far to protect me from myself? Insurance costs?
I like my seatbelt- I wear it pretty much all the time by choice, but the thought that I can now be pulled over for forgetting to put it on kind of pisses me off. I am an adult- I should be allowed to make my own choices.
We don't have helmet laws here in Texas, but the cops mandate that you wear them seatbelts buddy!
What a moron-a-thon.
I admit, I am a helmet advocate- but ONLY FOR ME!
I don't ride motorcycles (yet) but I have been dreaming of one lately. When I get one I will probably wear a helmet and leathers.
I am the first to admit that I like helmets. I wear one when I ride my mountain bike- I do it because I want to, not because someone tells me I have to- I don't set out on a trail to ride smack into a tree, or to fall down at all, but I wear one anyway. Call it preventative maintainence.
That is a choice I make- for me, not because I have to, but because I WANT to.
Helmet laws- I am against them. You should be able to make your own choices.
Besides these laws designed to protect us go against Darwinian theory.
When I see that idiot pull up next to me at a stoplight- you know the guy- Early 20's- shorts, flip flops, t-shirt riding a Yamaha R-1; I figure that is just natural selection at work.
To insist on protecting that guy goes against SCIENCE!
- Then again, he probably doesn't pull out in time either...
You guys should be able to make your own risk assesments. I will make mine when the time comes.
Philip