Originally Posted by
Six jours
Fine. Nobody is telling you not to wear a helmet, if you think that 0.5% risk is worth mitigating. The argument is simply that the rabidly pro-helmet camp (the folks who feel good about yelling at helmetless strangers on the bike path and posting things like "you're an idiot if you don't wear a helmet" on internet forums) are completely ignoring all the other 0.5% risks that they take on a daily basis.
So to be consistent, you lot need to either A) be complete A-holes about all sorts of routine "risks", or B) quit being such complete A-holes about this particular "risk".
Thank you for confirming my hypothesis... You zeroed onto the 0.5% and concluded, that the chance of needing a helmet is low enough to not wear one. I zeroed in on the 500 people who certainly could have used a helmet, thus deciding that I should wear a helmet as a last resort/line of defence.... That, I suspect is the major difference between people who decide not to wear helmets and people who decide to wear a helmet... JMO
