No
Surface level inference says you have very little to hide as a result of lack of evidence to suggest so
uh idk
in my eyes you are just the reliable guy from good neighbourhood, its easy to trust you
I mean, you’re not wrong about that.
Whether or not it’s a good idea is a different matter.
In case of school busses, the reason for seatbelt inclusion would be “keeping them up to code”
Vehicles need x features in order to be allowed on the road in most states for safety concerns
Issue of coronavirus is so severe and strange that most deciding bodies aren’t entirely sure how to deal with it
I think most wtf decisions are due to lack of experience rather than any greater concept
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I mean
I’m not going to say that’s an easy question
but I do think it’s possible to look at Hypothetical Idealized Policy #17 (I’m trying to keep this minimally political, hence the school busses example) and say things like ‘we expect that this policy would cause minor inconvenience to most of the nation, while saving approximately 15,000 lives each year, we think minorly inconveniencing ~20,000 people is worth it’ (this is about seatbelts in cars, and I’m not actually making an object-level claim about whether it is worth it) or ‘we expect that this policy will save about ~4 lives per year while costing tens of millions of dollars per lives saved, it’s obvious that there are more efficient ways to use that money even if the goal is to save lives’
one thing that sometimes works for estimating whether a tradeoff is worth it, if the tradeoff is fairly well defined, is that if something will cause some specific amount of harm to X number of people per life saved, to ask whether you’d rather have a guaranteed X amount of harm caused to you, or have a 1 in X chance of dying
but that obviously only works if you value your life about as much as the average person values theirs
There are dedicated school busses
due to ?something about their design? it’s extremely rare for people in school busses to die in school bus accidents (it’s generally much more dangerous for the vehicle they’re colliding with, for reasons that should be obvious), and those that do would rarely have been saved by seat belts being a thing
You are approaching this from too narrow of scope
Not just how it applies to citizens, but also the implementation, what happens to ones that haven’t been updated, and who will oversee given thing
National government also has to deal with state governments here since this is a NG issue given that school busses may go over state lines (but also possibly not which makes a lot of difficulties with the arguments of who decides what)
Government is super slow and making decisions isn’t just making a decision
It takes a very long time to make things happen even if government agencies decide implementation
because people will be more willing to support people that support laws that protect children
which is valid though
the safety of children is important to people
Listus
- I know she doesn’t like soft drinks.
- I know she had a boyfriend a while ago.
- I know she has 2 cats as pets, along with an unknown amount of fish.
- I know which high school she goes to.
- I know where she lives and what most of her house looks like.
- I know her parents are divorced.
- At one point, I knew her password.
And probably some other things I forgot.
Most of these have reasons, although some of those are definitely 
all of this apart from the last one seems like a normal amount of things to know about people
I definitely know more than that about several people here
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