Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws

[Xyzse]

26. Agreed except:

---That said... yes, I'd appreciate no laws telling me:

- to wear a helmet || I don't care, I appreciate people taking themselves out of the gene pool
- to wear a seat belt || Ditto Point 1
- what I can or cannot smoke || I don't care either, as long as it is well ventilated and that crap doesn't get on me.
- what I can or cannot drink (or how much) || Agreed again, you can drink moonshine to turpentine for all I care.
- what I can or cannot eat || Agreed again, people that go to the Heart Attack Grill or eat similar food is all good. Hell, I'd go one day, but only after I finish a marathon.(Wait, I do marathons, but not an Ultra, if I finish an Ultra, I'll celebrate by going there)
- that I cannot run with pencils || Is there a law about this? One can run with sharp objects, I routinely do!
- or, any other dumb ass law that is designed to protect me from myself.... || I can agree.

So here's the deal, I agree to most of that as long as reckless or dumb behavior does not physically affect me. You can smoke cigarettes or ciga-weed for all I care, but be downwind and/or at an open or very well ventilated area.

I know some people would say "But if you eat those fatty crap and become obese you affect me by raising insurance premiums for everybody", hell even if I can agree with that people need to look at it at another end where they should focus on making better food cheaper and adding more options.

Fast food is cheap, fast and easy, you can't say the same for nutritious foods.

So back to helmets, for bikes, I don't care much unless it is for a younger person but for motorcycles? They better have one. An accident on the road by a motorcyclists, particularly a fatal one would balloon my commute from an hour thirty to two plus hours, and a lot of helmets protect the eyes, I consider it as a windshield. Too much small debris running through the air can get in to a cyclist's eyes going above 30 mph and that is a hazard.