Good guess, but that’s not quite what inspired the question. I figured I’d get some comments like Bugmenot’s. At least one comment got pretty close to what actually triggered the inspiration, though.
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I didn’t reveal the reason so as not to influence the responses. The reason is coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
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The most well known “no seat belt” case, of course was Princess Diana and her boyfriend the night of the collision in Paris…
They were in a Mercedes S Class and only the body guard wore his belt. The driver, Diana and her boyfriend had not bothered. The car hit the overpass abutment at close to 100 mph as they were escaping the paparazzi pursuing them. We saw the scene of the accident shortly afterwards on a trip to Paris.
The body guard survived while the rest died. The boyfriend’s father blamed a “conspiracy” rather than carelessness and incompetent driving. The world press called it a tragedy of course.
Mercedes had mixed feelings; it did prove that you can survive a head-on collision in an S type Mercedes and live to tell about it.
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An old friend of mine from my undergraduate years doesn’t use his seatbelts because “they are part of a government conspiracy”. 
Since he also thinks that the enforcement of sanitary standards, speed limits, stop signs, hand-washing advisories, and even vaccination requirements are also part of a conspiracy, I don’t even bother to question him on this issue.
Yes, he is one of those Libertarians.
No, he’s a nut. One can be a Libertarian and not be a nut.
I suppose so, but he is clearly a nut, which is very sad.
For other Libertarians who protest against virtually any government expenditures, I ask:
When are you going to stop accepting Social Security, stop accepting “Socialist” infection control advice from the government, stop driving on those “Socialist” highways, and stop visiting those “Socialist” public parks?
I guess one could say ‘he is one of those libertarians’…there certainly are some that are extreme.
Let us not forget that the exemplar of that philosophy–Ayn Rand–railed for may years against “socialized medicine” and Medicare until she was critically ill with lung cancer, and then–suddenly–she decided that socialized medicine was a good thing.
When you look-up the definition of “hypocrite”, her photo should be displayed.
