Damn Fools and Other Morons

We’ve been through this before.

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Back in 1968, an international law was created mandating seat belts on airplanes. If you don’t like wearing a seatbelt and refuse to abide by the seatbelt rule, you do not fly. It is as simple as that.

Seatbelts for automobiles have been bought into law in various countries beginning in the 1970s. Initially, this began with lap belts that eventually graduated to three-point belts — over the shoulders and clipping into a lap belt. There are now 28 countries around the world with compulsory seat belt laws, most of them, western countries.

Motorcycle helmets became compulsory in many countries including Canada, the USA (many states), New Zealand, Australia, Britain, and most European countries. Over forty percent of countries now have established compulsory helmet wearing after research has indicated helmets have reduced the death rate in motorcycle crashes reduced by 30%.

Then there are passports. To enter any country around the world requires a passport. To acquire a passport, you have to provide certain confidential and private information. Don’t want to provide that information? Fine. You don’t get a passport and you don’t travel. Coupled with passports is a requirement in many countries to have proof of vaccination for many transmittable diseases before gaining…