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Ozark Bicycle
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On May 15, 1:21 pm, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
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- on helmets and combating mandatory helmet laws -
> I'm still seeing the "driving helmet" and "walking helmet" logical
> fallacies introduced the helmet debates in areas where the politicians
> are trying to introduce helmet laws. While I think that most of us
> oppose such coercive laws,
I have never known, first hand, a cyclist who favored an *adult*
MHL(Satirical/sarcastic comments excepted).
> when the AHZ's use these fallacies, for all
> intents and purposes they have lost the debate.
Exactly! *No one* takes a nutball or their nutball "arguments"
seriously.
> It's a personal freedom issue.
Bingo!
No one argues that you're better off wearing a helmet in an
> accident than not wearing a helmet (as the news story above
> demonstrates) but that decision should not be made by politicians.-
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- on helmets and combating mandatory helmet laws -
> I'm still seeing the "driving helmet" and "walking helmet" logical
> fallacies introduced the helmet debates in areas where the politicians
> are trying to introduce helmet laws. While I think that most of us
> oppose such coercive laws,
I have never known, first hand, a cyclist who favored an *adult*
MHL(Satirical/sarcastic comments excepted).
> when the AHZ's use these fallacies, for all
> intents and purposes they have lost the debate.
Exactly! *No one* takes a nutball or their nutball "arguments"
seriously.
> It's a personal freedom issue.
Bingo!
No one argues that you're better off wearing a helmet in an
> accident than not wearing a helmet (as the news story above
> demonstrates) but that decision should not be made by politicians.-