Reply #26: And some of us really don't like political correctness. [View All]

I prefer common sense: don't offend people. But don't twist society up in knots over it, know what I mean? Everyone just chill out.

As for seat belt laws, at first I bristled at them. But I saw them made into law, I saw punishments for not using them and they became a habit for myself and my family over time. (Mostly out of fear of the fines.)

As a result, I did NOT go through the windshield in a head-on collision last summer and I did not die, leaving my child motherless. I only suffered bruises in a perfect seat belt line from the back of my ear across my chest.

So I have to say I'm pretty glad for that bit of societal conditioning over time. That one saved my life and my child's life (she was in the car, too....and it was one hell of a nasty wreck....the 12 year old passenger in the other car was not belted and was killed).