Comments on: Britain’s seat belt law should be repealed

By: yngndrw

yngndrw — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:23:49 +0000

I think the decision whether to wear a seatbelt or not does affect others in two ways:
1) If I witness a crash, I don’t want to see people who have been splattered across the road.

2) Peer pressure may make other passengers in the car not use their seat belt when really they want to.

By: rodjames

rodjames — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:44:28 +0000

And the sad fact is john that it will never be debated among consenting adults because we are treated like children and are not allowed to decide our own safety levels, of course its a conspiracy, its what the agenda wants to see, visual compliance.

By: rodjames

rodjames — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:36:04 +0000

You have a right to decide for yourselves. There is no such thing as a law that implements this. If you want to wear one thats fine, if you do’nt want to wear one thats also fine. We have to stop this silly mentality of allowing the nanny state to force us to do something we dont want to do. If you dont want to wear your seat belt then dont! and dont comply with the nonsense, its time to get out of the playpen and make decisions based on what we think is right for us, instead of some dark suit with a head dictating our lives for us, im so sick of all this nonsense.

By: johnadams

johnadams — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:26:30 +0000

Further reply to Maskell (20 December 2006)on the subject of drinking and driving. I last visited this subject in “Risk and Freedom” (http://john-adams.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/risk%20and%20freedom.pdf (pp 119 – 122)). My conclusion then was that when legal sanctions run ahead of public opinion there is a conspiracy involving police, judges, juries and motorists to settle for a level of enforcement that accords with the public view of the seriousness of the offence. This appears to remain the case. The decline in drinking and driving in Britain since the early 1980s has mostly been achieved without any change in the law; it has become much less socially acceptable to drink and drive.

By: Roger Viggers

Roger Viggers — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:41:02 +0000

It’s good to learn that my long held gut instinct is supported by competent research.

Thanks for publishing.

I fear that efforts to have the law repealed will be long and frustrating since most people, including our legislators, are incapable of thinking about anything or anyone except themselves. Thus their decisions and responses will be based on a knee-jerk “I’m all right” attitude.

I recall a comment by one of the newspaper’s motoring journalists when driving a pre-war car (obviously no seat belts) in which she said that she felt unsafe.

That, to me, is how every driver should feel, all the time.

By: johnadams

johnadams — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:07:38 +0000

Laws against drinking and driving criminalize behaviour that puts others at risk.

By: Duke Maskell

Duke Maskell — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:10:24 +0000

What about drink-driving, then, eh?