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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: HELMETS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.183927.29407@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Rescorla for himself.
- References: <1992Nov18.121615.3330@cs.hw.ac.uk> <uoVguB1w165w@ziggys.cts.com> <moseley.122.0@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:39:27 GMT
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- In article <moseley.122.0@u.washington.edu> moseley@u.washington.edu (Steve L. Moseley) writes:
- >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 ...
- Why, just because they come up with a different answer than you?
- Consider: motorcycling is almost certainly more dangerous than not
- ever leaving the house. Yet I consider the pleasure derived from
- leaving the house to be sufficient to justify the risk. If these
- people consider the pleasure derived from riding without a helmet
- to be worth the risk, who are you to gainsay that choice?
- -Ekr
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- Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S) rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
- Former chemist now CM400 mechanic ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
- "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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