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To: epicure who wrote (9733)	3/26/2001 11:10:52 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 82486

. Your normal carefully reasoned approach to issues disappears when this topic area comes up. You and I have historically argued on the same side of issues. The best I can tell, that's because we have not chosen to engage each other in those areas where we disagree. We just stumbled into this debate due to a fluky set of conditions. A nexus between public disclosure of meetings and seat belt laws is unlikely. But here we are. When seat belt laws came on the horizon, there were only lap belts. Lab belts worked fine for me and I always used them. Yet from the beginning I thought that it was inappropriate for the government to force adults to use them. I recall that brief period when they attempted to require that the seat belt be buckled for the car to start. I was very opposed to that. And since I've run into the problem with shoulder harnesses, I discover that there's an equal protection issue on top of my original concern about the government overstepping. The emotional reaction I had to being dismissed by fellow posters was, I think, a distraction that confused the issue because I got me concurrently arguing on several different fronts under the umbrella of the seat belt issue. My personal interest in this may have affected the tone of my arguments, as did my hurt feelings, but neither affects my bottom line. What you're seeing as a departure from my "normal carefully reasoned approach" is merely the rightie in me, which is not apparent in most of the issues we discuss, coupled with the unusual display of emotion. I'm sure that my display of both emotion and rightie at the same time was startling, but they're different things. I also recognize that that wouldn't be readily apparent to anyone but me. Karen

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