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Originally Posted by mopek1
I'll agree with you here. Lots of seatbelt wearing is virtue signalling.
Before the seatbelt laws in my area I'd say 40% of people wore them. That means 60% of people were fine without them.
Of the 40% I'd say that 20% were genuinely scared and 20 were virtue signalers. The virtue signalers are the loudest bunch and because they are more vocal (and the media likes them) they make it seem like they represent the majority.
Of course, government mandating seatbelts make it seem like everyone is in agreement with them.
Much of seatbelt wearing is optics and political theater.
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I took the time to replace "masks" with seatbelts in your reply. Notice how suddenly its like we're back to 1976 when the exact same arguments were being made against mandatory seatbelts?
Look at where we're at today and how we look back at anti-seatbelters from back then.