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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:09:26 -0500, "Paul R" <[email protected]> wrote:
>"Micheal Artindale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> "Paul R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> >
>> > "Micheal Artindale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> > news:[email protected]...
>> > > Seatbelts save lives, so do Airbags. However tey can also kill.
>> > >
>> > > They are both laws.
>> > >
>> > > Get used to it
>> > >
>> > > Micheal
>> >
>> > First, there is no mandatory helmet law right now. Second, seatbelts and
>> > airbags save a lot more lives than they take. They offer no
>inconvenience
>> to
>> > the driver. They do not change the driving experience.
>>
>> You mean that $90 + fine for not wearing a seat belt?
>>
>> If your car was on its side, or upside down, on fire, or in a body of
>water,
>> it is near impossible to get a seat belt off with out something to cut it
>> off.
>>
>> Air bags come out at approximately 300mph. If you are too close, or if you
>> are too small, you can be killed.
>>
>> >
>> > The issues around helmet laws are a lot more complicated. It's not just
>a
>> > matter of "if a few lives are saved....". The fact is, in jurisdictions
>> > where these laws have been brought in, up to 40% fewer people rode
>bikes.
>> > That is a huge affect. That means that the streets are more dangerous
>for
>> > all cyclists.
>> >
>> > The other important fact is that helmets do not save lives. They can
>> reduce
>> > injury in certain circumstances. Every cyclist should wear a helmet. The
>> > problem is that the effects of helmet laws go beyond helmet wearing.
>>
>> Ok, if they say that you will recieve a fine for not wearing a helmet, how
>> does that go beyond wearing a helmet?
>>
>> >
>> > All cycling and transportation experts rank helmet laws at the bottom of
>> any
>> > list of ways to improve safety for cyclists.
>> >
>> > As I said before, Micheal, the information is out there. Before spouting
>> > your mouth off, please inform yourself. We've been through these
>arguments
>> > again and again.
>>
>>
>> Yes, And the fact remains, wearing helmets do save lives(I have friends
>who
>> can atest to that). Wear one, and quit your whining
>>
>> Micheal
>>
>
>You think a foam hat is stronger than your skull? I read an article in the
>Calgary Herald a couple of years ago that described a guy whose head was run
>over by a truck. Of course he was killed. The article actually made a point
>of saying that a helmet might have saved his life. Clearly absurd, but
>that's how people think.
>
>As I said before, please inform yourself before shooting off at the mouth.
>You are passing on the same misconceptions and lies that the helmet
>manufacturers (by the way, they want you to wear a helmet while skiing now)
>use to sell more helmets.
For facile specimens such as Micheal Artindale, clearly it has little
or nothing to do with the merits of helmets, helmets laws or issues
surrounding cycling in general and everything to do with
self-righteous control freakery.
The sneering contempt and derision that they so readily display
towards those who don't share their authoritarian streak reveals how
remarkably hollow their supposed concern for others really is.
They make for the ideal politician or present day cycling "advocate".
See sig.
--
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
robber-barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber-
baron's cruelty may at some point be satiated; but those who
torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they
do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C.S. Lewis
>"Micheal Artindale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> "Paul R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> >
>> > "Micheal Artindale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> > news:[email protected]...
>> > > Seatbelts save lives, so do Airbags. However tey can also kill.
>> > >
>> > > They are both laws.
>> > >
>> > > Get used to it
>> > >
>> > > Micheal
>> >
>> > First, there is no mandatory helmet law right now. Second, seatbelts and
>> > airbags save a lot more lives than they take. They offer no
>inconvenience
>> to
>> > the driver. They do not change the driving experience.
>>
>> You mean that $90 + fine for not wearing a seat belt?
>>
>> If your car was on its side, or upside down, on fire, or in a body of
>water,
>> it is near impossible to get a seat belt off with out something to cut it
>> off.
>>
>> Air bags come out at approximately 300mph. If you are too close, or if you
>> are too small, you can be killed.
>>
>> >
>> > The issues around helmet laws are a lot more complicated. It's not just
>a
>> > matter of "if a few lives are saved....". The fact is, in jurisdictions
>> > where these laws have been brought in, up to 40% fewer people rode
>bikes.
>> > That is a huge affect. That means that the streets are more dangerous
>for
>> > all cyclists.
>> >
>> > The other important fact is that helmets do not save lives. They can
>> reduce
>> > injury in certain circumstances. Every cyclist should wear a helmet. The
>> > problem is that the effects of helmet laws go beyond helmet wearing.
>>
>> Ok, if they say that you will recieve a fine for not wearing a helmet, how
>> does that go beyond wearing a helmet?
>>
>> >
>> > All cycling and transportation experts rank helmet laws at the bottom of
>> any
>> > list of ways to improve safety for cyclists.
>> >
>> > As I said before, Micheal, the information is out there. Before spouting
>> > your mouth off, please inform yourself. We've been through these
>arguments
>> > again and again.
>>
>>
>> Yes, And the fact remains, wearing helmets do save lives(I have friends
>who
>> can atest to that). Wear one, and quit your whining
>>
>> Micheal
>>
>
>You think a foam hat is stronger than your skull? I read an article in the
>Calgary Herald a couple of years ago that described a guy whose head was run
>over by a truck. Of course he was killed. The article actually made a point
>of saying that a helmet might have saved his life. Clearly absurd, but
>that's how people think.
>
>As I said before, please inform yourself before shooting off at the mouth.
>You are passing on the same misconceptions and lies that the helmet
>manufacturers (by the way, they want you to wear a helmet while skiing now)
>use to sell more helmets.
For facile specimens such as Micheal Artindale, clearly it has little
or nothing to do with the merits of helmets, helmets laws or issues
surrounding cycling in general and everything to do with
self-righteous control freakery.
The sneering contempt and derision that they so readily display
towards those who don't share their authoritarian streak reveals how
remarkably hollow their supposed concern for others really is.
They make for the ideal politician or present day cycling "advocate".
See sig.
--
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
robber-barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber-
baron's cruelty may at some point be satiated; but those who
torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they
do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C.S. Lewis