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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by jdkee on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:10PM (#23288777)
"Laws that allow you to be fined or punished simply for not wearing a seat belt or a helmet? Yes, those are wrong."

Why should I have to pay, through increased insurance and other societal costs, for your increased economic burden if you are paralyzed or run up huge medical bills because you could not be bothered to wear a seatbelt?

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by pdonis on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:13PM (#23288786)
> Why should I have to pay, through increased insurance and other societal costs, for your increased economic burden if you are paralyzed or run up huge medical bills because you could not be bothered to wear a seatbelt?

Go back and read the second part of my post, which you failed to quote, which addresses exactly this issue.

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