Except for the people that pay into the health system. The system that feeds you thru a straw in a ltc facility for the rest of your life. There are lots of them.
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Helmet Styles
- Thread starter Dimitri
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But while the EMTs are scooping his brains into a bag they can't being attending the rolled over minivan full of nuns.
Slippery slope. If you go down that path we can’t ride motorcycles because we don’t have seatbelts.
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Mad Mike
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Turns out healthcare and insurance payouts are lower in places without helmet laws. Accident rates are slightly lower, but the biggie is fatality rates.
Its a lot cheaper to bury you than it is to keep you alive.
Roadghost
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I think motorcyclists pay into the socialist health care system just like anyone else, therefore we have a right to draw on it. If you're more likely to die than live without a helmet you're not drawing on the system. Rigging a health care system to take away individual freedoms like the right to take a personal risk is unbecoming of a free and democratic society IMO. As has been said here already, insurance is lower in no-helmet law U.S. states.
BigEvilDoer
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Soooo...
You're telling me you *WANT* to be strapped to a 450+ pound vehicle as it tumbles off the road?
Nope Nope Nope.. you test the seatbelts on a motorcycle first and let me know how it goes.
BigEvilDoer
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Care to move for greater rights and freedoms then?
Mad Mike
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Personally yes. I would like to be free to do as I want so long as it doesn’t endanger you, or impinge on your rights.
Unlikely I'd ever ride a MC without a helmet, but I’d like to make that choice myself.
Move to Russia. You can do whatever you want there as long as you not critique Putin. If it's a deal breaker - move to Mongolia. You can do whatever you want there including talking **** about Putin.
So the possibility of getting hit in the head by road debris, becoming incapacitated, and veering into oncoming traffic or up on to the sidewalk doesn’t exist in your world. Got it.
ScorpionT16
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That's a Final Destination scenario, and also, life is full of it's own mysteries on how things happen. I've personally got 2 bee's stuck in my helmet, and had to quickly pull over/get out of the road, and one wasp stuck in my armour which almost led to a low side. At this rate, you might as well say no one should ride motorcycles, because fatalities and injuries even with gear, is exponentially higher than with cars.
PS. This is really sad, and show's how unpredictable things can be, hemlet, no helmet, motorcycle, or no motorcycle.
so is getting hit by a flying wheel on the highway. Hasn’t happened in the GTA since last week.
Mad Mike
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A million hypotheticals exist - that's life - you can't simply bubblewrap everything to prevent every rare occurrence of danger.
A deer could run in front of me (in my car or bike) and the same thing could happen - should we exterminate deer to prevent that?
Pretty sure your helmet is not going to help you if you get hit it the face with a wheel. Are you just arguing against motorcycles in general?
We're all lovers of an inherently dangerous form of transportation. We're all comfortable with different levels of risk. The way that you talk about no helmets is the same way my grandma talks about motorcycles and the same way Amish talk about cars.
Maybe not, but I’d still rather have it and roll the dice.
The chances of it knocking you off the bike are a lot greater than it hitting you in the head.
me too. His argument was that a helmet would be the difference between injuring innocent people by
Your comprehension is lacking. I said no such thing.
There's a big difference between possibility to cause and would cause.
Did any motorcyclists get killed by a flying wheel in Final Destination? Any of the sequels? You need to learn context.
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