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>I didn't realize you considered negligent homicide, at any range, an acceptable loss.
I don't, which is why I've never committed it.
>Or have you finally decided that you are INDEED intentionally and habitually breaking the law...?
I never denied I was breaking the law. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've said several times that I knowingly violate the law. So what? Who cares if I'm breaking the law? I'm not going to get caught and even if I did it's a nothing fine. I break laws all the time: speeding, rolling stops at red lights, ordering stuff off the Internet and not notifying the state for the proper sales/use taxes, etc. So what? Since when is the law the arbiter of what is right? The state obviously doesn't think car seats make very much difference, either, since they gave not using one a penalty less than 1/5th of the penalty they give litterers.
>but 100% of parents don't intentionally and habitually break the law by willfully and with full knowledge of their actions CHOOSING to ignore safety regulations mandated by law.
As usual, correct but irrelevant, since I never said anything about anyone breaking the law. Ignoring the law doesn't make you a bad parent any more than following the law makes you a good parent. Driving 5 blocks w/o a car seat means my kid is very, very, very, very, very likely to arrive home safely instead of very, very, very. very. very, very likely to arrive home safely. If I never left the house at all there's a very, very, very. very. very, very, very likely chance that the kid will survive, so why am I not a bad parent for taking the kid outside at all?
>In the case of driving without your child in the car seat, no matter what distance and/or speed, this is lacking on the parental part for taking ALL precautions necessary to ensure your child's safety.
If I was taking ALL precautions necessary to ensure my child's safety I would have it locked in a concrete bunker 24 hours a day. Since I have decided that risking my child's life is worth it, I have to decide in what activities she is allowed to engage. Riding 5 blocks w/o a car seat is an incredibly safe act (as evidenced by the fact that so few children are injured in this manner despite so many participating) that I allow my child to engage in. Going on a parentally supervised trip to the pool is much, much more dangerous than riding 5 blocks w/o a car seat, but I let my child do that, too, because it's still incredibly safe.
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