Libertarianism in action

An oldie but goodie, found thanks to a commenter at Roy’s place. Here’s the example of what libertarianism leads to, a sad and yet also funny tale of Derek Kieper, a young man enraged by seat belt laws:

No law, or set of laws, has made the government more intrusive and ridiculous than seat belt legislation. Nothing is a bigger affront to the ideas of freedom, liberty, yada, yada, yada. Whether you are a pinko liberal or a right-wing whack job, there are plenty of reasons for just saying to hell with seat belt laws.

Leading to the inevitable:

Kieper, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died early Tuesday morning when the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in travelled off an icy section of Interstate 80 and rolled several times in a ditch. Kieper, who was riding in the back seat of the Explorer, was ejected from the vehicle.

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Derek, who was thrown from the vehicle, was not wearing a seat belt,…

You can say he died from, though not for his beliefs. Sad to see somebody so young die for soemthing as stupid as not wearing a seat belt because it intrudes on his liberty, which is about as logical as rejecting potty training because it intrudes on your liberty to shit anywhere you want.