Nick: ... The fact that I feel people should be entitled to the right to risk their life if they want to will not stop some legislator, looking to make his mark, from proposing a law to "save" people from themselves ... Marsanne: AGREE!! Next time I am sweltering in a Gulf Coast August envious of you folks in the northeast (where it is slightly better, although I sweated in Rhode Island a couple of years ago) I will remember this. No one would even think of proposing such a law down here--at least not yet. Save me from people wanting to save me!! ... and Matt already pointed out that it might be a good idea to bear in mind who stands to gain (financially and / or in other ways, no doubt). "Certifying", "licensing" and similar procedures will to some extent legally shift "responsibility" from an accident "victim" to other persons or entities with potentially much deeper pockets. Call me cynical if you will, but it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Makes me wonder whether there isn't something to the New Hampshire license plate slogan after all: Live Free or Die. (And then I'm reminded of the fishing paddlers / paddling fishermen last summer in their aluminium canoe sitting on a case of beer each ... both cases empty by 11 o'clock in the morning as they returned from their unsuccessful early morning fishing trip grumbling about having to chase off the bald eagles, which they blamed for scaring "their" fish away ...) Best regards, Ralph Ralph C. Hoehn Folding Boat Center P.O. Box 700 Enfield NH 03748 info_at_FoldingBoatCenter.com www.FoldingBoatCenter.com phone: +1-802-649-2555 -- Ralph phone: +1-603-632-9500 -- Alv (yup, they rhyme) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 08:40:51 PDT
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