Nebraska: the N is for knowledge

[sigma7]

You probably missed Derek Kieper's seat-belt laws column:

I’m from the school of thought where everyone should have the right to do as they please as long as they are not infringing on the rights of other people. This comes from the political philosophy that inspired our founders and freedoms.

...No law, or set of laws, has made the government more intrusive and ridiculous than seat belt legislation. Nothing is a bigger affront to the ideas of freedom, liberty, yada, yada, yada. Whether you are a pinko liberal or a right-wing whack job, there are plenty of reasons for just saying to hell with seat belt laws.

...Telling me to wear my seat belt is the same as making sure I have some sort of proper education before diving into a swimming pool. If I want to dive in without knowing how to swim, that is my right. And if I want to be the jerk that flirts with death and rides around with my seat belt off, I should be able to do that, too.

Make your own punchline.

Comments

[opheliasclone.livejournal.com]

Have you considered submitting this to the Darwin Awards?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I haven't, actually -- if you'd like to, please do, as you thought of it first. Besides, being in Kansas, I think it's illegal for me to invoke Darwin. Or it would be, if we didn't have a Democratic governor.