Originally Posted by
AmericanMade
I live in PA where motorsickel helmets are "not necessary". Two months ago 5 motorsickelists were killed. 4 had no helmet, but the state demanded a program dictating public awareness of motorsickels on the road. 4 of the 5 deaths came about cuz non helmeted sickelist killed themselves in single vehicle (read that as drove off a well paved road) accident with no protection.
Darwinism dictates those who know better and choose to not wear a helmet should not be immortalized in death but laughed at for their shortcomings.
www.darwinawards.com so if your brain ain't worth a pile of dog poo, don't bother covering it. My wife is an ER nurse and is just tired of families of bikers and bicyclists who crash with no protection, drain the insurance pool and leave a pile of people looking to blame someone.
Her solution? When your bennies runout the hospital should be permitted to go to your front lawn and haul in in a wheel barrow and drop you on your front doorstep. It was your choice, darwinism dictates you should remove yourself from the gene pool, and your family can pay your freight and wipe your arse since you can't........and I agree. After all you wouldn't want to be a burden on society?
Before you go nutz, my wife is a wonderful person, she just understands the difference betweeen absolute stupidity and acceptable risk. Life is not to be lived in a cocoon but it you are so dumb as to not see the writing on the wall an not understand, you should not be permitted to reproduce. I believe she has a point
First off, motorcycling and bicycling are 2 very different activities with 2 very different records of injury and deaths. You shouldn't be comparing the 2, but it is interesting to note that when both motorcyclists and bicyclists do die, they most often die in collisions with motor vehicles and die from massive internal injuries that no helmet can prevent, even if the cause of death is attributed to head injury.
Secondly, you may want to reconsider the "burden on society" argument. It's clear and has been proven many times over that cyclists live longer and with better health than the general population. Even when they do not wear helmets. Most people die from ailments that cycling prevents and don't die from things that they are most often fearful of (ie - collisions)
Finally, you may want to learn just what happens when entire populations switch to bicycle helmet use. What you get then is the same amount of cyclists (or more) entering hospitals with the same injuries. The predicted drop in cycling injuries from helmet use just hasn't happened. It's been recorded and shows the helmet to be the red herring of cycling safety.