I agree with you entirely, Richard. Think of all the risks people took to
invent and develope things that we take for granted today-like cars and
aeroplanes. If the Safety Nazis had been around back then, I wonder how things
would have developed. I think too that extreme sports are something of a
backlash to safety nazi regime we live under today.
I have a friend visiting from Italy this week-she's going crazy trying to find
a place to light up a (legal) cigarette! I don't smoke, don't like it (well,
except for the occasional cigar), and have a slight allergy to cigarette smoke.
But, I believe in defending the right of people to exercise their free will and
choose for themselves. The same with seat belts.
Happy Fourth! Let Freedom Ring!
(I'm off to bed...)
Laura G.
>
>From: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
>Date: 05 Jul 2000 03:04:15 -0500
>To: dhl <dhl@chelseamsl.com>
>CC: "Laura.G" <Laura.G@141.com>, spitfires <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: MOT Time...
>
>Donald,
>
>Yes, it is true that if I maim myself that the taxpayer will pick up the cost,
> through our National Health Service. However, I think that is a fairly
> dubious excuse for a restriction on civil liberties - on that basis all
> dangerous sports like hang gliding, wet biking, rock climbing and skiing
> should be banned, simply to protect the public purse. There is a price to pay
> for having the right to injure yourself, and I believe that price is worth
> paying in order to live in a free(-ish) society.
>
>Don't for a minute think that I am opposed to wearing seatbelts - they are an
> excellent idea, I always wear mine, and I even reconnected the Seat Belt
> Warning light that a PO had disconnected. All I am fighting for is the right
> to choose not to wear it, even if I never exercised that right.
>
>Richard and Daffy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>dhl@chelseamsl.com on 4Jul2000 06:26 PM
>
>To: Richard B Gosling/1M/Caterpillar@Caterpillar
>cc: Laura.G@141.com@INTERNET
>spitfires@autox.team.net@INTERNET
>Subject: Re: MOT Time...
>Retain Until: 03/08/2000 Retention Category: G90 - Information and
> Reports
>Perkins Confidential: Green
>
>> Date: 04 Jul 2000 06:19:57 -0500
>> From: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
>
>[Major snip]
>
>> I will admit that the structural stuff is a bit over-stringent, and I object
> to
>> the law that requires you to wear a seatbelt, and that the check includes
> that
>> - seatbelts are an excellent idea, but wearing them should be a personal
>> choice, not law, as you are risking no-one but yourself.
>
>[another big SNIP]
>
>You may be risking no one but yourself, but when you do get clobbered,
>but not killed, and your insurance runs out, and the gummint starts
>paying for your care, it is MY taxes that you are using up. Oh.
>Sorry. You are in the UK where the gummingt(I mean the citizens) pays
>for all that stuff anyway. So if you get clobbered but not killed,
>everyone pays anyway.
>
>Now airbags, I could do without.
>MHO.
>Donald
>
|