ridecamp@endurance.net: Helmet Rules

Helmet Rules

Lynn-Marie Kara & Luther Sturtevant (karakat@spiritone.com)
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:20:10 -0800

Connie,
Frankly, I don't really care if you wear a helmet or not, though it does
have an effect upon society as a whole -- through increased insurance
rates -- when people don't take sensible safety precautions.

However, when it comes to children it's a different matter. Children
don't usually have the ability to make personal choices based on long
range consequences. It is our responsibility to make those decisions
for them. And that responsibility extends to the community as a whole,
not just to the individual family. Clearly, individual families do not
and should not have an absolute right to do whatever they wish with
their children; the community expects parents not to abuse their
children and to provide adequate food and shelter, as well as provide a
healthy environment in which they can grow up and mature.

Helmets may very well be an area where society SHOULD intercede, just as
in many communities it is now required that children wear helmets when
riding a bike.

By the way, "Keep Your Laws Off My Body" is a bumper sticker of the
pro-choice movement.
And what does the obvious fact that we were all born nude
have to do with anything?

Luther and Lynn-Marie
Paso Fino Dreams

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