Arguments Against Seat Belt Laws

Thomas Hobbes once stated, “A free agent is he that can do as he will, and forbear as he will, and that liberty is the absence of external impediments” (Hobbes 1654). The government should not possess the right to force an individual wear a seat belt, it should instead be a personal choice. The control that the government holds in order to enforce such a law does not allow the people the freedom they deserve. Regardless of the abundance of revenue the government is able to intake by maintaining the seatbelt law, this law is questionably overstepping government control boundaries, violating individual’s free will, and it also debatably not in the best interest of the people.

The government’s intentions behind enforcing the seat belt laws are questionably in regards to the citizen’s health and safety. The motive behind the laws are certainly due to the revenue they intake. The Seat belt law began to pass state by state around 1985 promising the reduction of highway

The freedom of choice is the reason many people choose to live in and raise their children in America. Without an individual’s free will, one is property of the state. Consequently, under the thirteenth amendment, the ownership of another human being is prohibited. Most people think that they’re free because they have the impression that they make their own decisions. If this is the definition of free will in citizen’s minds, then enforcing a law that requires individual’s to wear their seatbelt regardless of their personal beliefs eliminates America’s free will. John Locke, a believer of free will, says “The end of law is not to abolish or retrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law there is no freedom.” (Solomon, Locke) Our nation founded on freedom, certainly has come a long wat from Patrick Henrys cry, “give me liberty or give me death” to “click it or