Originally Posted by Chula Vista

The point you're missing is that it's not all about you. It's about everyone. Seat belts are required because they can save lives or at least reduce personal injuries. That cuts down on the cost of health insurance and/or reduces the amount of pain and suffering that others can go through.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.