[240] in libertarians
Re: seat belts, practicality, the Constitution party, and Perspective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Sun Sep 25 16:11:30 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 16:09:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: mjacknis@MIT.EDU's message [seat belts, practicality, the Constitution party, and Perspective] as of Sep 25, 14:35
To: mjacknis@MIT.EDU, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In your message [seat belts, practicality, the Constitution party, and Perspective]
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| Seat Belt Laws:
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| I realize that seat belt laws are contrary to the philosophy of
| individualism, but I think we have to be REASONABLE and PRACTICAL in
| what we as Libertarians target. I think we should have higher
| priorities than criticizing these laws, since it is difficult to explain
| to the masses why we are against them. At the moment, we appear to have
| a random and crazy outlook to those who don't yet understand our
| philosophy, and we have to start out by pushing reforms that would have
| practical benefit (such as canceling minimum wage & drug laws, etc.)
Actually, seat belt laws were repealed by *voter referendum* in 1986 in
Massachusetts. So how does being in tune with more than half of the voters
makes us appear "random and crazy"? I suspect that more people in Mass.
oppose seat belt laws than oppose minimum wage laws.
- Kevin
