One of my favorite reasons for spending time with Eduardo is that he makes me think as if there were no box to think outside of, if that makes sense. I"m pretty good at analyzing the surface myself, but he makes me want to dig deeper.
For example, I had begun to question the government's authority to tell every American to wear seat-belts. Who are they to demand that we be safe or, quite literally, "pay the consequences"? Who are they to forcibly "protect" you and I? Because in that small motion, we are losing so much more. It all comes down to Benjamin Franklin's famous words, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Who really cares whether you wear your seat-belt or not? It should be one of those common sense things that your parents teach you, one of those things you either take to heart or discard completely; not something that is forced into action.
I say that it is unconstitutional of the government to require people to wear seat-belts. If cigarettes and alcohol are legal means of destroying yourself, why am I not allowed to choose whether I wear my seat-belt or not?
The answer is simple, money. Why waste money on something like educating people about safe operation of a motor vehicle, when we can just fine them so we have money to clean them up when they die? And if they get in a wreck and didn't wear their seat-belt, we can just fine them again! Government one, people zero!
What are we going to let them take next?
Also, this is interesting: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-fraud-of-seat-belt-laws/
