my motorcycle insurance pays for funeral costs or helps, i guess depends how much the funeral is.
I don't see why the government can't set laws. You are using public roads that are built and maintained through government funding. The government mandates standards for vehicle safety to try to ensure some level of safety for all vehicles. I think a helmet law is similar in the face they are trying to ensure some level of safety for the motorcycle rider. Additionally, there are people that get traumatic injuries who are either uninsured or their insurance doesn't cover the treatment they will receive. That cost is all eaten by the state.
By government funded, you mean funded by US, the citizens since the government does not make any money besides what it steals from us. Same with the "state eating the cost" it is actually us eating it.
Yes, it should be obvious anything from the government is from tax dollars. You can call it stealing if you want but funding for schools, military, police, etc doesn't grow on trees. It's paid for by the citizens that get to utilize them. So yes the state eating the cost is us eating the cost and in turn that is money that can better be spent on other things by simply keeping a law that saves lives.
Seatbelts, & airbags. If you look at the statistics, seatbelts have caused deaths, and so have airbags. I've seen certain wrecks, where the whole side of the car was crushed, in such a way that if the person was buckled in, they would have died. The people who make these laws don't care about your freedom of choice, nor do they consider the select few who may have lived otherwise, they look at statistics, that say something along the lines of "90% of people who died in car crashes last year were not wearing a seatbelt, 10% were" and think "hey, if everybody were wearing seatbelts, less people would die"
trust me there is no logic in it. seat belt tickets were went nationwide purely for monies plain and simple.
Studies into the effectiveness of certain safety features have more thought put into them then what a 3rd grader would think of statistics. You wouldn't just use the raw numbers directly but properly scale them so they can be compared. Aside from that, who cares if 1/1000 accidents the person would have been better off without a seatbelt. I think I'd rather be on the side that is safer in almost ever incidence.
