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21 Dec 2021, 7:56 pm

I was "against" mandatory seat belts, until I worked in an emergency room. The accident victims coming in who had been wearing seat belts were treated and went home. The ones who weren't wearing seat belts either went upstairs for emergency surgery or downstairs to the morgue. It was very clear cut.

But back to the point, I don't like change that is imposed on me. I don't mind change if I am the one making the decision to change.


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21 Dec 2021, 8:38 pm

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It wasn't the insurance companies. It was the New York State governor. His father got into an accident and was ejected through the windshield and flew to his death. The governor was informed that he would still be alive if he had been wearing a seatbelt. The governor then has a bill written and loudly and publicly told the state legislature than anyone who didn't vote for said bill, he would make it his mission in life to destroy their political ambitions. So, it became law. Further, they promised that the law would NEVER be used to pull you over. It would only ever be something they could cite you for if they pulled you over for something else. About half the people in the country bought that last part.

Interesting. Though I was thinking more about the UK when I said I thought it was the insurance companies, as that's where I'm from.



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21 Dec 2021, 8:46 pm

Myrtonos wrote:
A lot of people on the spectrum, maybe most of the ones diagnosed, are resistant to change. Is it true that many vehemently disagree with changing anything for illogical reasons?

That part --- the illogical reasons. LOL, ROTFLOL. I don't mind change at all that I initiate or that is logical, but if it is illogical.... LOL... the horror. Of course sometimes the path to logical is illogical, but I'd think I'd have some intuition about it.



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21 Dec 2021, 11:23 pm

blazingstar wrote:
I was "against" mandatory seat belts, until I worked in an emergency room. The accident victims coming in who had been wearing seat belts were treated and went home. The ones who weren't wearing seat belts either went upstairs for emergency surgery or downstairs to the morgue. It was very clear cut.


I've had extremely unpleasant thing happen to me similarly strapped immobile. I am not a good driver when I'm having a panic attack. Emergency rooms are safer places to work because I don't wear a seat belt.



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22 Dec 2021, 9:36 pm

When I was 17, my dad gave me a radio for my car. I traded it in to buy seatbelts, which were not standard at the time. If they work in aircraft and racing cars, I figured they'd work for me.
Back to the original query, though, I am not good at accepting illogical changes, and not a lot better at illogical continuations, of which the world is already quite full.



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23 Dec 2021, 10:54 am

I'm still wearing my actual Nam days dog tags, but under my shirt. They for a long time were socially unacceptable. Now they are not even seen; but they go under my shirt anyway. They are very real still, of all that's D, I, V & P to me; but not O, and never shall be. (Perhaps I need to "accept" the O.)

I like the "DIVPO" cosmology lots! Thanks!!



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23 Dec 2021, 7:35 pm

ronglxy wrote:
I'm still wearing my actual Nam days dog tags, but under my shirt. They for a long time were socially unacceptable. Now they are not even seen; but they go under my shirt anyway. They are very real still, of all that's D, I, V & P to me; but not O, and never shall be. (Perhaps I need to "accept" the O.)

I like the "DIVPO" cosmology lots! Thanks!!

Thank you for your service. It was horrible how you all were treated when you came back for things that were not your fault.

What do those letters on your dog tag stand for?


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