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Originally Posted by Azure
Only because we've come this far.
A strong society is a society where the citizens can regulate and be responsible for their own safety and the safety of others without having to be forced by any government.
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Look at it more like the current seatbelt law. That law came into effect in Manitoba (where I grew up) just before I started driving. So once I got my learner's I immediately started wearing my seatbelt. It's so automatic that I often put it on when moving the car in the driveway. Last summer my brother in law chuckled because I put it on to drive the car across the acreage.
But before and when that law came up there was outrage over such a "stupid law." I recall in the early 80's having to stop at the Saskatchewan border to dig the seatbelts out of the back seats; complaining the whole time about how stupid this whole thing was.
The only difference one can say about this is that with seatbelts you are pretty much saving the "morons" from themselves. Whereas with a cell phone ban your are preventing the morons from causing accidents with non-morons.