While any caring mother or father would cheer this law that would save people's lives and their savings, the law administrators ought to review their ideas about the right punishments and their severity.

The exaggerated method of fighting two of the main causes for fatalities and permanent life on wheelchairs, should not be administered by taking away a driver's vehicle and locking it up for two or three months with a KD 2 fine per day. That seems more like someone trying to get rich than the government trying to protect society.

The aggressiveness of this law would only force the public to give in to their reactionary emotion, and would push them into overlooking the nobility of the cause, and only focusing on how harsh it is to them.

The backlash will only restate to us Newton's third law "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

There will be an eventual parliament hero who will, without any hesitation, vocalize the masses' outrage, in fact he or she will not need to be very artistic in articulating the fact that even the strictest of countries such as Singapore or Germany, do not handle the illegal conduct of not wearing seat belts or using one's phone while driving, as a crime that requires removing the driver from his car in the middle of the street and impounding his car, and making him pay for all of its "jail-time", because forgetting about seatbelts and touching smartphones are not as sinister acts as death threats or sexual harassment.

In more clear words, I do believe that I share every considerate citizen's opinion when I express my full support for the war on the carelessness of not wearing seatbelts, and texting while driving.

However, being a Kuwaiti who has seen a lot of laws passing...and passing out, I sincerely believe, that sadly, it is only a matter of time before this seat belt fever "wears" itself out - as it did in less than 31 hours this time!

By Jeri Al-Jeri

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