If you can find someone who wrote a coherent article whose central pro-seatbelt argument is based on how seatbelts protect third parties from being struck by the catapulting bodies of idiots who didn’t wear their seatbelt, I’m happy to change my mind.
Are you sure nobody justifies the law based on that? There are laws about tying down payloads on pickup trucks for exactly this reason.
If you can find someone who wrote a coherent article whose central pro-seatbelt argument is based on how seatbelts protect third parties from being struck by the catapulting bodies of idiots who didn’t wear their seatbelt, I’m happy to change my mind.