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[Lautremont]

all these early promises (which I don't remember being made anyway) had been made by the exact same people who today hold power and are enacting the harsher or more restrictive ones. Then you could argue perhaps that slope was being slipped down, but as it is, you've got a period of decades over which different people with different ideas of how public health ought to be maintained are in positions of power.

Seat belts is a non-starter anyway: in either iteration of that law, you'd want to wear your belt; moreover, it's smart to wear it anyway.

I generally shy away from slippery-slope arguments. They're weak at the best of times and most visibly wielded by right-wing loons (eg. "If gays can get married, what's next, men marrying dogs?")