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Why don’t they just ban motorcycles altogeather in the name of soceital responsibility?
Friday, July 4th, 2008V for Vendetta asked:
So they can save on medical costs associated with crashes, insurance, use of emergency personnel, backing up traffic, etc. Earlier I asked if people agree with the state making seatbelts mandatory and most people agreed with it even though there was no real direct hurting of another person by not wearing one (people felt it would cause more injury and death and indirect societal costs by making it optional) so the question is why would those same people not be in favor of banning motorcycles altogeather using the same logic (at what point does personal liberty become more important than societal responsibility and what criteria do we use to determine that?
So they can save on medical costs associated with crashes, insurance, use of emergency personnel, backing up traffic, etc. Earlier I asked if people agree with the state making seatbelts mandatory and most people agreed with it even though there was no real direct hurting of another person by not wearing one (people felt it would cause more injury and death and indirect societal costs by making it optional) so the question is why would those same people not be in favor of banning motorcycles altogeather using the same logic (at what point does personal liberty become more important than societal responsibility and what criteria do we use to determine that?

