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by coldtea 3633 days ago
>Because humans, without regulation, don't value vehicle safety.

Judging from everybody I've seen texting while driving, NO, they don't.

You keep using this word, totalitarianism. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I mean, seat belt laws are totalitarian? That's kind of insulting to the victims of totalitarianism everywhere...

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I am painfully aware of what totalitarianism is... Should I not talk about it and warn against it until it's undeniably here? Sometimes it is very hard to figure where you would draw the line on political influence.
Telling a car manufacturer to design a vehicle that doesn't kill it's occupants ishardly totalitarianism. Calling it such does a disservice do everyone by conflating helpful laws with actually totalitarian things the government does.
>I am painfully aware of what totalitarianism is... Should I not talk about it and warn against it until it's undeniably here?

No, you should just avoid the slippery slope fallacy.

BUCKLE YOUR STALINBELTS. TAXES ARE THEFT. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, UNDERSTANDING IS IGNORANCE, ETC.