Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!albert From: albert@harvard.ARPA (David Albert) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Seat-belt laws: It's not an issue of freedom Message-ID: <377@harvard.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 21:12:13 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.377 Posted: Mon Feb 11 21:12:13 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:22:45 EST References: <321@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <630@unmvax.UUCP> <309@mhuxm.UUCP> <665@unmvax.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 24 > Why wouldn't it be practical to have different rates for those who wear > seatbelts ...? > > --Cliff [Matthews] Isn't it clear that such a rate structure could never be enforced? If you were presented with the choice of paying a higher rate or saying you wore a seatbelt, which would you do? Sure, maybe the insurance company could refuse to pay if you were found dead in your car with your seatbelt off. But could they prove you hadn't taken it off after the accident? And if it were on, could you prove that you hadn't put it on at the last minute -- thus removing your hands from the wheel and contributing to the accident -- to avoid losing your insurance? -- "...sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." David Albert ihnp4!ut-sally!harvard!albert (albert@harvard.ARPA)