Safety equipment comes in many shapes and sizes. Some is optional and others are required. Take your average combination of driver and automobile.
The first level of protection is an example of both optional and universal. It is called providence. Whether you admit it or not, God has His eye on you as you drive down the road. For a while I kept a list of the times that a few seconds or a few inches would have caused serious injury or death. Then I realized I had no idea how many times I had really been shielded from a malicious virus or a drunk driver. The best protection is the kind you don’t know about. In a sense there is little you can do to influence providence, or as some would call it, luck.
The second level is how you drive. This is a big factor. We have all seen people on motorcycles that seem to be hurrying to their next accident. Our actions in life are a major influence on what happens on the other levels. In the recent panic over the Chinese virus it was no surprise how often the people who died “from” covid already had their left foot in the grave because of obesity, a liver eaten up by alcohol, a mind dulled by recreational drugs and lungs ruined by smoking. In addition they often were balanced on the edge with severe diabetes and if you looked further you might find they were people who had not been taking their medication as directed. Behavior produces results.
Only then does your seat belt come into play. Usually seat belts save lives, with one caveat: You have to wear them for them to work. We live in a society that keeps trying to build in safeguards to take the thrill out of life. I remember going Christmas caroling with the back of my dad’s dump truck full of my church friends. We could never get away with that today. Would we be safer? Yes. Would we build as many memories? No way.
You make your choices and you live with the results. Enjoy what liberty you have left. Live dangerous, don’t wash your fruit or boil your water.
homo unius libri
Monday, October 23, 2023
Opus 2023-260: It’s for Your Own Good
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