If you are stupid enough to ride in traffic without a helmet you deserve to be left on the pavement to die. Was that hate-filled enough? Or should I have done it in CAPS? Long story short, you ride without a helmet that is your choice. You should pay your medical/burial costs, not insurance or Medicare/Medicaid. You made the choice, you pay for it.
TwoHotel9 - 04:06pm on 06/18/2006
Honest to goodness. When my sister was in ICU. More people had head injuries from not wearing a helmet than any other kind of accident including car accidents.
Zsa Zsa - 05:06pm on 06/18/2006
If the government is constantly protecting people from the consequences of their own actions, won’t this serve to weaken society over time? It seems to me that the best way to ensure a thriving society is to allow people as many free choices as possible while simultaneously holding them (and them alone) accountable for the consequences of those actions.
Exactly, this is Darwinism in its purest form. Because not only are people capable and knowledgable of the protection that helmets provide, they choose not to wear them, for whatever reason. So when they get into accidents, even if it is not their fault, that is nature ridding of us of the unintelligent.
J.R. - 06:06pm on 06/18/2006
Why is it seat belt laws make sense but helmet laws do not?
richard - 04:06am on 06/19/2006
Because seatbelt laws generate revenue. See where I am going with this?
TwoHotel9 - 04:06am on 06/19/2006
Ah ha!…
Zsa Zsa - 04:06am on 06/19/2006
So not wearing a helmet carries no fine?
My point is our lovely elected officials have no isse passing laws in the guise of public safety, what makes riding a motorcycle different?
richard - 04:06am on 06/19/2006
Or a bicycle, skateboard, skates etc...? AND, shouldn’t we have to wear a helmet in a car? Government needs to dictate more! NOT…
Zsa Zsa - 04:06am on 06/19/2006
Where I live kids get ticketed for not wearing a helmet on all three until the get of 14, which I do not get, what changes at 14 that makes me less likely to die if I bounce my head off of the pavement.
I agree ZZ we need less government intrusion.
Just trying to point out that he morons that we have as elected officials pick find it nearly impossible to be consistent with where they intrude.
richard - 04:06am on 06/19/2006
Under the age of 14 are ticketed? So do they get a fine or their bike taken away? Or do parents have to pay? What did we do when these laws were not around?
If you are stupid enough to ride in traffic without a helmet you deserve to be left on the pavement to die. Was that hate-filled enough? Or should I have done it in CAPS? Long story short, you ride without a helmet that is your choice. You should pay your medical/burial costs, not insurance or Medicare/Medicaid. You made the choice, you pay for it.
Honest to goodness. When my sister was in ICU. More people had head injuries from not wearing a helmet than any other kind of accident including car accidents.
If the government is constantly protecting people from the consequences of their own actions, won’t this serve to weaken society over time? It seems to me that the best way to ensure a thriving society is to allow people as many free choices as possible while simultaneously holding them (and them alone) accountable for the consequences of those actions.
Exactly, this is Darwinism in its purest form. Because not only are people capable and knowledgable of the protection that helmets provide, they choose not to wear them, for whatever reason. So when they get into accidents, even if it is not their fault, that is nature ridding of us of the unintelligent.
Why is it seat belt laws make sense but helmet laws do not?
Because seatbelt laws generate revenue. See where I am going with this?
Ah ha!…
So not wearing a helmet carries no fine?
My point is our lovely elected officials have no isse passing laws in the guise of public safety, what makes riding a motorcycle different?
Or a bicycle, skateboard, skates etc...? AND, shouldn’t we have to wear a helmet in a car? Government needs to dictate more! NOT…
Where I live kids get ticketed for not wearing a helmet on all three until the get of 14, which I do not get, what changes at 14 that makes me less likely to die if I bounce my head off of the pavement.
I agree ZZ we need less government intrusion.
Just trying to point out that he morons that we have as elected officials pick find it nearly impossible to be consistent with where they intrude.
Under the age of 14 are ticketed? So do they get a fine or their bike taken away? Or do parents have to pay? What did we do when these laws were not around?