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Good Lord, if you are going to use the "flying bodies as projectiles" argument, then you can't dismiss motorcycles. That is completely intellectually dishonest.
Most of our laws come down to a cost/benefit analysis, rights of one vs either rights of others or safety. But motorcyclists also have restrictions on them that are not placed on those within vehicles (in many states), such as wearing a helmet.
And there is the practicality of the law as well. Cars and trucks have the ability to have seatbelts, whereas motorcycles don't. It would be kind of like complaining about seat belt laws not applying to city buses, even for children. Practically speaking, buses simply cannot work practically with seat belts without major inconveniences, whereas private vehicles, such as cars and trucks easily work just fine with seatbelts and keep people safe with little to no loss of practical use of that vehicle's purpose.