Is that why...

Post #344,640 by folkert 7/8/11 8:29:23 AM Reply	Is that why... Ohio doesn't have a helmet law? Nor Indiana.
Post #344,646 by drook 7/8/11 9:59:15 AM 7/8/11 9:59:26 AM Reply	Dunno about that All I'm saying is you can't use the economic impact argument to support your desire to tell someone else that they should wear a helmet. (Not "you" you of course, just in general.) -- Drew Edited by drook July 8, 2011, 09:59:26 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #344,669 by static 7/8/11 10:56:11 PM Reply	+5, Illuminating. So many things in this modern western secular society is done for the "economic impact", even if the original impulse was actually quite noble. :-( (Don't get me started on speed cameras...) Wade. Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
Post #344,651 by hnick 7/8/11 11:16:28 AM Reply	We (ohio) used to have a helmet law. It was repealed on the basis that it was not up to the government to prevent people splitting their heads. The insurance companies pissed and moaned and some quack from the Cleveland Clinic wrote numerous screeds to the paper that it was so heartbreaking fixing the people who were splattered without helmets. I wrote, in response, that he probably picked the wrong profession and he should bitch about his guidance councilor instead. The paper declined to publish it... I am the first to admit that Ohio is an incredibly stupid state, but the helmet laws have nothing to do with it.

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