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Don Homuth
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:18:31 GMT, Lobby Dosser
<[email protected]> wrote:
>[email protected] (Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:
>
>> In article <pL1Ai.3175$ai3.2155@trndny03>,
>> Lobby Dosser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>[email protected] (Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:
>>>
>>>Obey the law. If the law says wear a helmet and you don't, the rest of
>>>us don't pay for Any related head injury.
>>
>> The law is not a good standard for deciding what the law _should be_.
>>
>> And if the law is your standard, note that it does not set denial of
>> medical care as the penalty for violating seat belt laws or helmet
>> laws.
>>
>It should.
Why? Is it in society's interest to leave injured folks untreated.
> Or the devices should not be Required.
Well, there actually Is another alternative.
Have a piece of Civil Law, not criminal law, that says if a person is
injured and was Not wearing a seat belt, for example, that for
insurance purposes they are at least 50% culpable for their own
injuries.
In which case, they'd have to pay out of pocket for their own
expenses.
That'd get folks' attention ferDamnshur!
<[email protected]> wrote:
>[email protected] (Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:
>
>> In article <pL1Ai.3175$ai3.2155@trndny03>,
>> Lobby Dosser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>[email protected] (Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:
>>>
>>>Obey the law. If the law says wear a helmet and you don't, the rest of
>>>us don't pay for Any related head injury.
>>
>> The law is not a good standard for deciding what the law _should be_.
>>
>> And if the law is your standard, note that it does not set denial of
>> medical care as the penalty for violating seat belt laws or helmet
>> laws.
>>
>It should.
Why? Is it in society's interest to leave injured folks untreated.
> Or the devices should not be Required.
Well, there actually Is another alternative.
Have a piece of Civil Law, not criminal law, that says if a person is
injured and was Not wearing a seat belt, for example, that for
insurance purposes they are at least 50% culpable for their own
injuries.
In which case, they'd have to pay out of pocket for their own
expenses.
That'd get folks' attention ferDamnshur!