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Old 04-05-2006, 10:59 AM   #47 (permalink)
Ace_O_Spades
The Death Card
 
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Originally Posted by guccilvr
To people who say they've been saved by a seatbelt.. how do you really know you were saved by wearing it?? Could it be it just wasn't your turn to die??
I guess you're asking a theological question... which cannot be answered by anyone having a different viewpoint than yours.

Nobody can prove that it wasn't god's divine breath that saved you, or some abstract concept of "fate" that rolled the dice and decided it wasn't your time. That's a matter of belief, not fact.

Applying Ockham's Razor we can choose between "seatbelt prevented head from smashing into window, thus preventing death", or "seatbelt prevented person sitting in back seat from rocketing through the windshield, thus preventing death" or.... "divine fate chose that it wasn't my magical predestined time to go, thus preventing death"

I leave it up to rational people to choose what common sense tells us... But empirical evidence shows wearing a seatbelt saves lives... PREVENTS death
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