Haha ... you invoked Godwin on purpose - does that even count? 2010/5/22 Bob W <[email protected]>: > [...] >> So one should always be vigilant. >> >> How does a helmet hinder such vigilance? >> >> It's nice to have the helmet as a final layer of protection >> if more "pro-active" prevention isn't enough. Not that >> helmets are a guarantee of anything, however they do lessen >> one's chances of more serious head injury. >> > > That has not been shown to be the case. In fact, wearing a helmet increases > your chances of certain types of injury, if you're unlucky enough to crash. > > For everyone who thinks their life was saved or injuries lessened by a > helmet there is probably someone who could have been killed or seriously > injured by wearing one - but we don't have the stats to make any kind of > judgement based on this. When I fell off and broke my wrist a few years ago > I bumped my unhelmeted head on the pavement. It was no big deal, but by > increasing the volume of my head area a helmet could have led to some sort > of hideous rotational injury. There's no point in speculating on these > hypothetical lines or comparing the seriousness of what might have been. > <http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1019.html> > > To me the matter should remain one of choice for adults, even if it could be > proved incontrovertibly that helmets offered substantial benefits to the > cyclist. There are really 3 camps in this argument. A 'pro-choice' (for want > of a better phrase) lobby consisting of some pro- and all 'anti-' helmet > people, and a 'pro-life' (as they might call themselves) lobby which wants > helmet use to be mandatory. I notice that the set of people who want to make > helmet wearing illegal is empty. From this I conclude that if one wants to > make helmet wearing compulsory one is either a helmet manufacturer or a Nazi > or both. > > Thread over. > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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