No Rampaging Arrogance
Dear Mr. Secretary of Transportation, State of Virginia:
RE your "Click It or Ticket" campaign: I second the sentiments of my colleague Walter Williams. Government has no business telling me or anyone else to wear a seatbelt.
Like Walter, I wear a seatbelt each time I ride in an automobile. I will continue to do so because I believe it is the prudent thing to do; for me, the inconvenience and discomfort of buckling-up are outweighed by the safety benefits of doing so. But I assure you that being commanded by busybodies to wear a seatbelt emphatically is not and never will be the reason I wear mine.
In a free society, adults are not ordered to be safe. Each adult chooses his or her own preferred level of safety, unmolested by others.
I resent to my marrow your rampaging arrogance.
Don Boudreaux
Burke, Virginia
RE your "Click It or Ticket" campaign: I second the sentiments of my colleague Walter Williams. Government has no business telling me or anyone else to wear a seatbelt.
Like Walter, I wear a seatbelt each time I ride in an automobile. I will continue to do so because I believe it is the prudent thing to do; for me, the inconvenience and discomfort of buckling-up are outweighed by the safety benefits of doing so. But I assure you that being commanded by busybodies to wear a seatbelt emphatically is not and never will be the reason I wear mine.
In a free society, adults are not ordered to be safe. Each adult chooses his or her own preferred level of safety, unmolested by others.
I resent to my marrow your rampaging arrogance.
Don Boudreaux
Burke, Virginia
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Wednesday February 28, 2007 at 8:36pm