Buckle Up

On a local and state level, you become a target of government officials if you fail to wear your seatbelt. In most places, your accidental failure to put on a seatbelt when you drive subjects you to a government law enforcement officer pulling you over, collecting your identification, interrogating you, and issuing you a legal fine that must be paid (coupled with excuses to issue you other tickets as well). If you do not pay the fine then other government enforcers will come and extract the money somehow. Once paid it will be promptly placed in state or local coffers to fund the system that perpetrated the abuse in the first place.

Taking the seatbelt example, libertarian philosophy would say, "It’s probably a good idea that one wears their seat belt. But it is not the job of government to make people take care of themselves if their decisions are not bothering anyone else in the process. One’s failure to wear a seatbelt is not harming another person, especially not the offended officer who writes the ticket. Seatbelt laws are just small-scale examples of overzealous government and government officials bothering citizens minding their own business. Therefore, abolish the seatbelt laws and let cops enforce laws against real crimes that involve violating the rights of another person."

That’s not exactly the prevailing philosophy of "law and order" Big Little Government conservatives and liberals. Their philosophy as it relates to this example is "Click It Or Ticket" along with a photo of a menacing cop pasted to your local gas pump with a legal warning to follow state and local dictates.

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