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Kinda sounds like me when seatbelt laws came out.
At first, I was against them, not because I myself didn't wear a seatbelt because I did, but because I thought it was absurd that we would waste time and money trying to make stupidity illegal.
Like if you make stupidity illegal, then the people making stupidity illegal would be illegal because it's stupid to try to make stupidity illegal.
My opinion was that if you are stupid enough to drive a two ton death machine without basic protection and it kills you, then that's your own stupid fault, right?
But my mind got changed about it when somebody mentioned to me that seatbelts don't just save lives, they also reduce injuries.
And, given that the kind of person that is dumb enough to drive without a seatbelt is also the kind of person that is dumb enough to drive without insurance, the real reason for pushing for seatbelts was to reduce the taxpayer burden of covering the health care financial deficit caused by these stupid idiots.
It was not a life-saving measure, although it does save lives, but rather, it is a money-saving measure.
Protecting taxpayer money from stupid people is a smart move.
Now I am fully behind seatbelt laws.