[Vision2020] Question for the Vision

[J Ford]

Question: those interested in the "innocent" people of the world getting 
"killed" in abortions and the like - how about the innocents that are 
involved in accidents THEY DON'T CAUSE and they are not using seat belts?  
Should they be allowed to die just because they don't have a belt on?  What 
about the children that have a parent that forget or just don't agree with 
seat belts?  Should they be allowed to die in an accident?

Seems to me that "Right to Life"ers are being rather short sighted on this 
issue...or is it that YOU get to choose who has the right to life?

Seat belts save more than the life of the people in the car - they can 
potentially save the life of the people on the street that get hit by a 
flying body...happens, you know.



J  :]





>From: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
>To: "'Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Question for the Vision
>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:16:55 -0800
>
>Kai Eiselein, editor wrote:
>
>>I believe that all persons under the age of 18 should be belted, and 
>>officers should be able to pull over a vehicle if they see an unbelted 
>>minor.
>>Adults, however, should make their own choices.
>
>
>Kai,
>
>You make good points, but I have to disagree with you here.  One of the 
>reasons you wear a seatbelt, aside from stopping you from being flung out 
>of the car, is so that you can have the possibility of retaining control of 
>the car in the event of an accident.  It's hard to stop the car or swerve 
>to avoid something if you are under the dashboard struggling to get up.  Of 
>course, this does no good if you smack head-on into a telephone pole, but 
>if you careen off some other car, it would be nice if the jolt left you 
>still able to regain some kind of control.  Thus, someone not wearing their 
>seatbelt can affect me directly, if I'm in the car that would have been hit 
>if someone had not still been able to veer out of the way because they were 
>buckled up.  This argument is mainly for the driver, of course, I don't 
>feel strongly one way or the other about passengers who are of age.
>
>As one other reason, I'd like to point out that wearing a seatbelt can help 
>drive home, so to speak, the reality of how dangerous driving can become.  
>I swear, most people think they are in a video game and that if they hit 
>something they can stick their arm out and stop themselves.  I like the 
>idea of showing gruesome images as a deterrant, but perhaps we should also 
>make them calculate the inertia involved and show them what those numbers 
>can mean by showing them the results of crashes at various levels of force.
>
>Paul


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