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Originally Posted by DestinyRules
Frankly, I think states should require motorcycle drivers to wear helmets and people to wear seatbelts. The injuries and deaths those two can prevent far outweigh the inconvenience they cause in the minds of those "free spirits." Because Roethlisberger wanted to ride a bike with no helmet for whatever reason, he could have thrown his career away. He's damn lucky to be alive for Pete's sake!
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And here's where I look like a giant jerk BUT...I disagree.
If you're dumb enough to not wear a helmet then that's your bag of chips. If you're dumb enough not to wear a seatbelt - your bag of chips.
There is something that is quickly diminishing in this society and it's called personal responsibility.
Not to say that I'm not sorry someone was hurt, I don't mean to come across as heartless. But do you realize that at the moment this guy was in an accident and seriously injured (because of a choice he made) that someone else somewhere was being brutally beaten or raped, someone was dying at the hand of another, a child somewhere was dying of starvation - there are bigger fish to fy in this world than requiring someone to wear a helmet.
I so sound like I don't value human life or like a big old jerk - but seriously, if we keep making laws protecting people from themselves then people will never learn anything - society already panders to the stupid and irresponsible as it is.