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by TravelPiglet 1464 days ago
You can die with the seat belt on in a car crash. Why wear it at all?
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Because seat belts don't leave people with with side effects.
Sure they do. Seat belts cause injuries in crashes all the time. Sometimes (rarely) even more serious injuries than would have been sustained without one. Airbags even more so. Both will very occasionally even cause injuries outside of collision scenarios.

When seat belts were first mandated, there were lots of arguments about how it's safer not to wear one and government has no right to require it.