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- From: moseley@u.washington.edu (Steve L. Moseley)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: HELMETS
- Message-ID: <moseley.122.0@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:24:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.moseley.122.0
- References: <1992Nov18.121615.3330@cs.hw.ac.uk> <uoVguB1w165w@ziggys.cts.com>
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- Organization: Microbial Pathogenesis and Motorcycle Maintenance
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- In article <uoVguB1w165w@ziggys.cts.com>
- cobra@ziggys.cts.com 619/262-6384 (Ron Lee) writes:
-
- >The thing that pisses a lot of us off (and I admit, I'm taking quite a
- >liberty to speak for many whose opinions I haven't gathered) is that IT
- >DIDN'T HAVE TO BE A DOGMATIC "DO IT OR DON'T RIDE AT ALL" type of
- >dictatorial paternalistic attitude which fails to treat motorcyclers as
- >Human Beings with abilities to make such judgements for themselves.
-
- The fact is that in states without helmet laws, 50% of motorcyclists NEVER
- wear helmets. This makes me question the assumption that these Human Beings
- are capable of making informed judgements on the issue. Not that I'm in
- favor of helmet laws ...
-
- Steve
- DoD # 1951, COG, HOG, AMA
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