Well for seatbelts, the fine isn’t very high. But not wearing a seatbelt doesn’t actually only affect you. Firstly, kids. Kids deserve agency for safety, and the fine might be the only thing that makes a shitty parent buckle their kids up. Secondly, without a seatbelt you can become a missile. One of those kids behind you might shoot up into the back of you, severely hurting you both, or you might shoot out of the windshield of your car and become an obstacle for someone else.

It shouldn’t be required by law for people to actually use life saving safety equipment but so many people are ignorant or lazy and they pass that ignorance and lazy (or its effects) on to their kids. When I was younger I used to smoke but never smoked with my daughter in the car, I always waited until I got where I was going, had her wait in her car seat with the AC, and I’d smoke then get her out. Her mother used to fuss at me for smoking. Well surprise after the divorce I’ve quit smoking and her mother started and she’d drive around in the winter with the window cracked a damn centimeter and the heat on, filling the car with smoke with my daughter in it. So I’m glad places have started passing laws saying you can’t smoke with kids in the car.