While it may not be an accurate enough paraphrasing of the feelings you portrayed your wife having for your tastes, it kinda goes along with the dropping the unhelmeted patient off in a wheelbarrow after his bennies run out sentiment.

You see, AM, there are a number of helmet fanatic stereotypes. You've covered two of the most popular. The angry, my damn taxes are payin' for your brain surgery stereotype. A lot of these folks also go for "He didn't care enough to wear a helmet; why should I care enough to help him?" So sorry if you don't wanna be lumped in there, but they're pretty similar.

Next huge stereotype you went for in your first post in this thread is the folks who incorrectly think that people that die who don't happen to be wearing helmets when they do so is pertinent to Darwinism. Yeah, Darwin awards are funny. Yeah, saying that not wearing a helmet 24/7 somehow qualifies someone for the awards makes you feel smart and superior because you do wear a helmet 24/7, but it's just plain wrong. Theoretically, if helmet wearing for all types of cycling saved lives in any great quantity, then natural selection would seem to allow folks with poor bike handling skills and situational awareness more of a chance to reproduce. This dilutes the bike handling skills and situational awareness of the gene pool. Bad news for the cycling race.