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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by jdiff on Saturday August 02, 2025 @06:03PM (#44772004)
Authoritarian has a definition, it's not just "people who make laws that keep me from doing what I want."

People in the USA still complain in the same way today about laws mandating seat belt usage, but it's still not authoritarian. It's a net positive for the wearer and everyone around them, and it's incredibly childish to push back on something for no other reason than because someone is telling you to do it.

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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by userbinator on Saturday August 02, 2025 @08:11PM (#44772911)
New Hampshire is a state with no seat belt laws, yet it's near the bottom of traffic fatality rates in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_road_de...

In the EU, Germany infamously has roads with no speed limits, but its traffic fatality rate isn't high either.

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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by petre on Sunday August 03, 2025 @12:23AM (#44774067)
The statistic is almost funny to looking at, seeing SC at the top of the list with 40% more fatalities as the next state.

Germany only has no speed limits on some Autobahns. But you mostly end up in a Stau or Baustelle anyway, so it's not that exciting.

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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by Ray20 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @09:15PM (#44773289)
>It's a net positive for the wearer and everyone around them

This is literally the argument autocrats use for any authoritarian law they pass.

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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by jdiff on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:52PM (#44803394)
There are many phrases, sentences, and concepts that don't generalize when you remove the facts at hand.
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