Do you also think it should be the law for car manufacturers to provide seatbelts? If you don’t, then you’ve got an even worse take
Wearing a seatbelt should 100% be the law. It affects others, you’re just doing mental gymnastics to pretend it doesn’t.
If you didn’t mandate seatbelt usage it would take up extra valuable hospital resources, extra valuable emergency response resources, and simply expose more people to death of someone they know.
Go live outside of society, if you truly feel this way. Honestly.
Take your downvotes as a small microcosm that the vast majority of society is not with you on this, and maybe reconsider.
Manufacturers should be required to provide seatbelts. Failure to do so affects others negatively.
If we continue to not mandate healthy eating habits, easily preventable diseases will continue to take up extra valuable hospital resources, extra valuable emergency response resources, and simply expose more people to death of someone they know. Outlaw high BMI now!
Lemmy is a combination of control-obsessed tankies and nanny state libs - of course I’m getting downvotes. Fortunately, I’d rather be right than popular, and I guarantee you that someone read my comments here and realized for the first time just how ridiculous and hypocritical seatbelt laws are. They probably still downvoted, because accepting that what you’ve always been told is incorrect is difficult, but the seed will have been planted.
It’s much easier to wear and police seatbelts, and totally worth it. If you could feasibility do the same for high BMI, yeah, that’d be great, but they’re not really comparable. The imposition on the individual would far outweigh the benefit to society.
Seatbelts? Wooooooow, must be so hard to put it on, right? Such an effort!! Seriously, what a whinge.
People who whinge about the “nanny state” really need to get a grip.
The cost to your “freedom” here is negligible, whereas the benefits are undeniable.
Seriously, get a grip.
Edit to add: from Australia. So don’t lump me in with your right-wing liberals
You can’t be serious. It’s far easier to police high BMI, since it’s much more obvious and way easier to spot fat people in public who are a danger to themselves (and to that healthcare system you’re so concerned about) than a small strip of fabric at a distance through the windshield of a moving vehicle.
If you could feasibility do the same for high BMI, yeah, that’d be great
Wow, “we should have cops police BMI” is definitely not the argument I was expecting. You clearly are Australian.
The imposition on the individual would far outweigh the benefit to society.
You’re so close! Soooo close! Just dust off that brain and try to follow the breadcrumbs!
the benefits are undeniable.
Then it should have been super easy for someone in this thread to name one, and yet…
from Australia. So don’t lump me in with your right-wing liberals
Oh, I’m not, trust me. I’m lumping you in with one of the absolute worst countries for personal liberties in the free world. Seriously Australia, get a grip.
Do you also think it should be the law for car manufacturers to provide seatbelts? If you don’t, then you’ve got an even worse take
Wearing a seatbelt should 100% be the law. It affects others, you’re just doing mental gymnastics to pretend it doesn’t.
If you didn’t mandate seatbelt usage it would take up extra valuable hospital resources, extra valuable emergency response resources, and simply expose more people to death of someone they know.
Go live outside of society, if you truly feel this way. Honestly.
Take your downvotes as a small microcosm that the vast majority of society is not with you on this, and maybe reconsider.
Manufacturers should be required to provide seatbelts. Failure to do so affects others negatively.
If we continue to not mandate healthy eating habits, easily preventable diseases will continue to take up extra valuable hospital resources, extra valuable emergency response resources, and simply expose more people to death of someone they know. Outlaw high BMI now!
Lemmy is a combination of control-obsessed tankies and nanny state libs - of course I’m getting downvotes. Fortunately, I’d rather be right than popular, and I guarantee you that someone read my comments here and realized for the first time just how ridiculous and hypocritical seatbelt laws are. They probably still downvoted, because accepting that what you’ve always been told is incorrect is difficult, but the seed will have been planted.
It’s much easier to wear and police seatbelts, and totally worth it. If you could feasibility do the same for high BMI, yeah, that’d be great, but they’re not really comparable. The imposition on the individual would far outweigh the benefit to society.
Seatbelts? Wooooooow, must be so hard to put it on, right? Such an effort!! Seriously, what a whinge.
People who whinge about the “nanny state” really need to get a grip.
The cost to your “freedom” here is negligible, whereas the benefits are undeniable.
Seriously, get a grip.
Edit to add: from Australia. So don’t lump me in with your right-wing liberals
You can’t be serious. It’s far easier to police high BMI, since it’s much more obvious and way easier to spot fat people in public who are a danger to themselves (and to that healthcare system you’re so concerned about) than a small strip of fabric at a distance through the windshield of a moving vehicle.
Wow, “we should have cops police BMI” is definitely not the argument I was expecting. You clearly are Australian.
You’re so close! Soooo close! Just dust off that brain and try to follow the breadcrumbs!
Then it should have been super easy for someone in this thread to name one, and yet…
Oh, I’m not, trust me. I’m lumping you in with one of the absolute worst countries for personal liberties in the free world. Seriously Australia, get a grip.