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Wear your seatbelt
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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Sounds like an asshole with an asshole friend.
Agreed. This is like jamming something in someone's eye because they refused to wear safety glasses. If you don't want to drive someone who refuses to wear a seatbelt, then don't drive them. It's not a license to assault them. Guy who slammed on the breaks is the bigger asshole, even.
The same results can be achieved at 5 MPH. A car moving at that speed still carries a shitton of momentum.
I guess I see your POV but what if the no seatbelt guy actually understood the lesson and will voluntarily buckle up from now on? It could save his life.
Same argument could be applied to parents who brutally beat their kids to stop certain behaviours. Which doesn't necessarily mean you're wrong, but that the overall morality of being an asshole to encourage some greater good is complicated.
Though I'd also wonder at the motivation. Was it to teach a lesson the only way OP knew how or because he was pissed at being defied and wanted to dish out some abuse and call it karma?