Oh the irony... helmet laws

[Valhallaz]

My life was saved by a helmet. I can't understand how a human can fail to make such a should-be instinctual self-preservation related decision to wear a helmet. It just doesn't compute.

And here's an updated link to the article: Motorcyclist in Helmet Protest Hits Head, Dies - Local News - Fort Wayne, IN - msnbc.com

My position is simply that it BE a decision. I didn't elect anyone to be mom and dad.

As for your previous post, should OSHA standards apply to all parts of your life, even outside the workplace? How about they make you wear a helmet to clean the gutters on your house? Statistically speaking, getting on your roof may well be as dangerous as getting on a motorcycle.

[j2k4]

Statistically speaking, getting on your roof may well be as dangerous as getting on a motorcycle.

Someone call an Actuary!!

[lawdogg]

My position is simply that it BE a decision. I didn't elect anyone to be mom and dad.

As for your previous post, should OSHA standards apply to all parts of your life, even outside the workplace? How about they make you wear a helmet to clean the gutters on your house? Statistically speaking, getting on your roof may well be as dangerous as getting on a motorcycle.

Well I would personally like people to go ahead and not wear a helmet whenever they don't want to. If they do something dangerous and die, I hope that they do it before they have kids so we can rid the gene pool of their unfit genes permanently.

[Valhallaz]

Well I would personally like people to go ahead and not wear a helmet whenever they don't want to. If they do something dangerous and die, I hope that they do it before they have kids so we can rid the gene pool of their unfit genes permanently.

Fair enough.

[Frostedbutts]

I get the whole "personal freedoms" bit of conservatism, but the hyperbole in this thread is hilarious - you know your argument is weak when you resort to equating climbing a ladder to driving on a motorcycle. Really?

Sometimes I climb up ladders at 60 miles per hour.

[onebadmollafolla]

I get the whole "personal freedoms" bit of conservatism, but the hyperbole in this thread is hilarious - you know your argument is weak when you resort to equating climbing a ladder to driving on a motorcycle. Really?

Sometimes I climb up ladders at 60 miles per hour.

While I'm on your side of the debate here, I think they are talking more about the fall speed than the climb speed. Yes, still not near the speed a motorcycle is capable of. Though, potentially deadly I suppose. I'll stop before this goes off on to a different tangent about ladders.

[Frostedbutts]

Yeah, I realized that after I posted it. Either way you're not falling off a ladder at 60mph either, so it's semantics anyway.

[Primus101]

Well then...
I'd like to propose a helmet law for anyone climbing a ladder.

Do you know anyone who has suffered a head injury? I guess not-

My longtime buddy, who works a majority of his day on a ladder, smashed his skull on a tumble off a 6' ladder. Spent about 6 weeks in a coma, 3 of that with a large piece of skull removed so that his brain could continue swelling without shutting down his major organs from too much pressure. Took up to the next year to relearn prettymuch everything he had in his 40 years. He was lucky enough to make an amazing recovery physically, but will suffer for the rest of his life from aphasha, a discouraging speech disability-

It's not about having your toes stepped on, it's about common fuckin sense to donn a skidlid or head protection whenever appropriate.
Some just cant figure that out.

[GTO Assassin]

This is laughable. You people saying "it should be MY choice to wear a helmet or not" are too stupid and hence why it's law that you have to wear one. (in most places) Is it because you dont like people telling you what to do? Get over it. It's going to reduce the risk you will die if you crash or have some clown side swipe you.

Scotty

[Valhallaz]

So you want the government to step in and regulate common sense. Where does THAT end?

You want a law on the books to prevent each and every bad decision? Or just this one?

If I'm not capable of making my own decisions, what makes you so fucking special that you have the moral authority do it for me? You seem to accept that it's a given that you're smarter than the next guy... And apparently, you can't see what's wrong with that picture.

And you have the nerve to call others stupid. Go figure.