How's This for Irony?

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Society feels it has the right to specify the use of seat belts because society also pays a price:

Everyone pays for those who don't buckle up, because the costs go beyond the loss of lives and result in higher taxes, health care costs, and insurance costs. On average, hospital costs for an unbelted crash victim are 55 percent higher than those for a belted crash victim (National Safety Council 2001).

Society bears 85 percent of the costs of crashes. Every American pays about $580 a year.

The needless deaths and injuries that result from not using seat belts cost society an estimated $26 billion annually in medical care, lost productivity, and other costs (NHTSA, 2002).

American College of Emergency Physicians

So the argument that society should not intrude because it only affects me is a fallacy.