• LukeMedia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not wearing a seatbelt can harm your passengers in an accident. Based on that alone it’s reasonable imo

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      1 year ago

      It could then be argued that it would only be required under the circumstances in which the lack of a seatbelt would create a situation where the safety of others is threatened, and those affected do not consent to the risk.

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          1 year ago

          I would say that such a law, when being written, should maintain the original mindset as described in this comment of mine. What I mean by this is to say “whenever you are driving” does not cover the situations in which there would never be (or, at least, extremely unlikely to be) any harm to another except yourself, or those consenting. An example of this woud be offroading – perhaps you were implying for such laws to only apply when driving on public roads, but this wasn’t specified explicitly, so I’m making assumptions.

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            1 year ago

            Yes, you are correct in both statements. I was not thinking of the more fringe scenarios, I meant specifically public roads.

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              1 year ago

              I was not thinking of the more fringe scenarios

              Unfortunately, the contention around many laws lies within the gray rather than the black, and white.

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                1 year ago

                You are correct, though I am not a lawyer nor a lawmaker. I’m a guy on the Internet with opinions, and I don’t always immediately think of gray areas.