Originally Posted by yugyug

Your insistence on equating seat belts and helmets and not thinking about their differences is why you don't understand their different effects on the perception of danger. Its important to understand that people don't rationalise their perception of danger or even consciously consider it. Affects work bodily, and its from thinking about how products, systems and experiences work on the body that larger social affects becomes understandable. This conversation is not about proving that helmets make cycling seem dangerous by society - thats the work of statistics, if anything - but rather about understanding why helmets make cycling seem dangerous.