I do consider seat belt laws as overreaching. I don't consider vaccine mandates as overreaching.
But here's the thing -- I live in a society, and that society has decided that seat belt laws are fine. I don't make a fuss about the seat belts because that's a settled issue in society and isn't a huge burden on me. People making the liberty argument against vaccines should adopt the same stance.
I think I agree with you on your first sentence: If YOU decide not to wear a seatbelt, then YOU are the one that might to go out flying through the windshield. Your choice.
Now vaccines, if YOU don't get vaccinated, you might cause the death of one or more people who you get infected directly or indirectly.
One is a social good, the other is a personal choice.
> If YOU decide not to wear a seatbelt, then YOU are the one that might to go out flying through the windshield. Your choice.
And if I accidentally pull out in front of you, causing you to crash while not wearing a seatbelt, now I'm traumatized for life and possibly sued into bankruptcy, instead of simply inconvenienced.
Not to mention traumatizing anyone who witnessed you fly through the windshield, and EMT/first responders.
> If YOU decide not to wear a seatbelt, then YOU are the one that might to go out flying through the windshield. Your choice.
This of course assumes there’s no one else in the car. If there is, then you turn yourself into a 80kg human meat pinball moving at between 20-80mph, bouncing around the inside of the car. In this case your pretty much guaranteed to kill or seriously injure the other occupants.
There are many kinds of seatbelts really. We have belts to hold kids into booster seats. We have belts to restrain dangerous criminals. We have collars for dogs.
The vaccine means different things for different people. For people with poor immunity its a life-saver. For you people<18 years its largely pointless from a life-saving perspective. It would be like advocating for seatbelts on your lazyboy.
But here's the thing -- I live in a society, and that society has decided that seat belt laws are fine. I don't make a fuss about the seat belts because that's a settled issue in society and isn't a huge burden on me. People making the liberty argument against vaccines should adopt the same stance.