Seat Belt Laws

The San Jose Mercury News had a story on Oct 19, 2012 titled "Dumb Tickets Leave Bay Area Drivers Fuming". One CHP person told about how he wrote a ticket for a driver not having his seat belt buckled. The driver was fuming. A year later the driver was wearing his seat belt and was saved from injury when in an accident. The driver wrote to thank the CHP person for making him wear his seat belt.

The seat belt law is unnecessary. It is force used by the State pack that is used to collect revenue for the State pack. When the State rule enforcers make you pay for not wearing your seat belt while driving two blocks in a 25 mile per hour speed zone it has nothing to do with safety but everything to do with collecting revenue for the enforcers. The more rules, the more enforcers, with good pay and early retirement benefits.

The seat belt law was also lobbied and put in place by the insurance industry to help reduce their payouts in accidents. The insurance industry uses the State pack to enforce some rule the insurance industry wants. If there was no law the insurance industry's contract could specify the insured must wear a seat belt and the insurance company could simply not pay for injuries sustained by someone who was not wearing their seat belts in and accident. Of course this would make the insurance industry look callous for not paying the insurance claim of someone who was injured, even though the injured person was not living up to the terms of the insurance contract. If this procedure was in place you would find people voluntarily complying with the terms of the insurance contract.

The humanitarians will tell you they are using force and coercion on me, for my own good, by forcing me to wear seat belts. "The desire to do good is most often the desire to rule others."- H.L. Mencken.

If you get a ticket for driving without your seat belt fastened your insurance rates may go up for this infraction. This is another way the insurance industry profits from this law.

When I leave my house I feel like I am going into a prison because there are so many laws telling me what I must do and what I am prohibited from doing. Still I see people singing, with tears in their eyes, the National Anthem words at a ball game,- "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!" Do they really believe they are free? Of course they believe it. The believer is happy. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you were free, really free, you could opt out of the law and have a sticker on your license plate indicating you were not required to buckle up, and if necessary, pay a higher insurance premium for the freedom. The humanitarians do not want you to be free.

The humanitarians ask you to give them your power so they can tell you what to do so you will be safe. Don't do it! Don't let them be your nanny that treats you as if you are a child. Don't give them your power to do good because when they have your power to do good they can also do evil, which is what people with power have done most often throughout history.

Charles Tolleson, The Oppressed

Tribalism

I had a conversation with my son about tribal behavior while watching the Ryder Cup golf tournament. We observed the players were more emotional when playing on a team instead of playing solo golf. The golfers are saying with their demonstrations of emotions and enthusiasm they are fighting for the tribe, and they expect a reward. When you hear someone tell you they are doing this for you or your tribe they expect to get paid for what they are doing.

I believe this tribal behavior is part of our historical gene pool. We always wanted to belong to a strong tribe that we could rely on for our survival and the ability to find a mate and sow our genes.

No matter how great we are as an individual we still need a place to belong and get respect and protection. That place is a tribe that we can rely on. Therefore we build up expectations of the tribe we belong in that no other tribe will conquer my tribe, so I feel safe.

We take pride in our tribe. False pride is a deadly sin. We think when our tribal representative wins a golf match against another tribe we falsely believe our whole tribe, including ourselves, are better than the people in the other tribe, even though we did not play in the event.  When our high school team wins we feel false pride that we are better than the members of the tribe that lost, even though we did not play in the game!

Frederick Douglas, a slave in the South, in his "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas" wrote about how slaves would argue over who had the best master. The slaves wanted to think they were in a better tribe. Today the republicans and democrat party faithful argue over which of them has the best master, but masters they have, telling them what they can, must, and cannot do.

Our delusional devotion to our tribe shows in the ever day military ceremonies at civilian and private events. Waving the flag and singing the
National Anthem is a way of saying our tribe is greater than any other tribe, no matter how many people we murder by drone operators sitting thousands of kilometers from the site of the murder, and we call these women drone operators brave, just because they are wearing a uniform that represents our tribe.

No matter what horrors a tribe commits, the tribe always thinks it is right.- "What a thing it is to have a country that can't be wrong, but if
it is, is right, anyway!" William Dean Howells

When one fails they always look for a sanctuary in their  tribe. People invest a lot in the tribe. They always hope to get more from the tribe
than they invest.

Are humans good or evil?   They will be good if it is to their advantage and evil if that is to their advantage.   They will be good to their own tribe because there are rewards.   They will be evil to another tribe because that is to their advantage as they can capture the enemy tribe's women and food and help insure their own genes are reproduced.   If the world was all one race, religion, nation and tribe, evil would be reduced, but not eliminated.   Evil will be eliminated only by artificial intelligence, bio engineering, and time.

Charles Tolleson