For Our Safety . . . Again
The agitprop arm of the insurance mafia – the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety – “shared” (in the mewly Leftist-speak that has replaced proper English) a video that “clarifies” the “importance of a properly adjusted car seat head restraint.” You know, those rearward-vision-obscuring things perched atop every car seat now, in the interests of “safety.”
Which is an interesting thing in that a hypothetical benefit is imposed (these head restraints are required, which is to say we’re effectively forced to buy them) at the cost of an objective detriment. That being what you can no longer see as clearly behind and even to the side of you, which almost certainly increases the chances of not seeing it – and so running into or backing up into it.
Of course, the idea is that when someone else runs into you from behind, you’ll be less likely to experience a whiplash injury. And that may be so.
But what’s interesting, from a moral-philosophical point-of-view, is tha
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