laura@utcsstat.UUCP (06/29/83)
Now correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that airbags are less effective than seatbelts in stopping me from being killed if I am in a car crash. And airbags are expensive, and cost money to be deflated if they ever do go off, either *in* an accident or *by* accident. Yet you poor folks are going to have to get airbags and the seatbelts are being removed? And if I rent a car in the States there will be airbags and no seatbelts? Terrific. Now, again, the people with the brains have to suffer because of the ones who dont. There are times when I think that it would be quicker to build a great big ark (and call it the B ark :-) ) and ship them all off planet. How many people here think that the prime role of government should be providing information? How many think that it should be weilding a great big stick to threaten those who may have done wrong? How many think that the primary role should be protecting stupid people from the consequences of their own stupidity? How many think that the primary role should be penalising the intelligent because their brethren are stupid or for some reason *want* to kill themselves? Laura Creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura