Originally Posted by
joejack951
You sounded semi-reasonable up until this comment.
I also thought the post was reasonable up until this:
Your skull is much less likely to be damaged when the load is distributed over a larger area. This is what a bicycle helmet does.
Modern, micro-shell helmets have almost no load distribution abilities. The plastic is simply too thin.
Older helmets did a much better job of this but they were eliminated some time ago.