Originally Posted by Trevor98
Real logic would demand valid reasons for adopting a behavior (since we are born without helmets that is the initial state). That is, it is the burden of those who wish to change the initial state (helmet-less) to prove their point (helmet use).
Your argument goes hand in hand with cyclintom's cut & paste nonsense in every helmet related thread.
Were you born on a bicycle, or motorcycle permanently attached to your crotch? We're using appropriate tools to provide reasonable safeguards to a lifestyle that we've drastically modified in just a hundred years. Given ten thousand years of a similar lifestyle, I have no doubt that our bodies would evolve suitably for these relatively new tasks.
Originally Posted by Trevor98
I often feel that the helmet zealots need to justify their hefty expenditures and their wholehearted acceptance of helmet industry propaganda (all writing is propaganda for something) while refusing to seriously question the source of their convictions. It would be a scary world indeed, if we all just readily accepted advertising as "truth."
There's no real reason for you to get on a bicycle in the first place is there, better to stay home and watch others ride!