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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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What do you call a motorcyclist without a helmet?

Organ donor.

My cousin, who I didn't really know, was killed this way. Slid out on some loose gravel on the road, no helmet.
 
rufus said:
What do you call a motorcyclist without a helmet?

Organ donor.

My cousin, who I didn't really know, was killed this way. Slid out on some loose gravel on the road, no helmet.
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Yeah, it's just purely insane to do that. I saw a car accident recently where the driver of the car that was hit was wearing his seat belt but because the car was struck on the drivers side door with such force he died instantly anyway.
 
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I don't get this. Any state on an ocean should have rules like this because rip tides can be absolutely horrible. Even lakes can get clogged up with algae, and depending on the lake can have rip tides themselves (though I suppose they wouldn't be "tides"...).

The entire GQP platform is "nuh uh!" I absolutely don't understand the infatuation with the early 19th century frontier lifestyle that... didn't exist the way they've fetishized it.
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Isn't it all just risk tolerance? What about people who hang glide or skydive or climb El Capitan without ropes or safety gear? I'm not interested in doing those things, nor am I interested in riding motorcycles, in part because I think they are dangerous. But don't we all get to choose our own risk tolerance for things like that?
 
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Isn't it all just risk tolerance? What about people who hang glide or skydive or climb El Capitan without ropes or safety gear? I'm not interested in doing those things, nor am I interested in riding motorcycles, in part because I think they are dangerous. But don't we all get to choose our own risk tolerance for things like that?
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You could use this to rationalize away any law you like.

There are times when it simply isn't safe to swim in a body of water. Sure, you may think you're invincible, but that's fine. You aren't. And I don't think it's that weird to periodically ban swimming when it's not safe.
 
SJHovey said:
Isn't it all just risk tolerance? What about people who hang glide or skydive or climb El Capitan without ropes or safety gear? I'm not interested in doing those things, nor am I interested in riding motorcycles, in part because I think they are dangerous. But don't we all get to choose our own risk tolerance for things like that?
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Fine, so long as you don’t harm others *or even put them at greater risk.* if some cleanup crew has to come along and leisurely scrape up the goo formerly known as you off the base of El Capitan, at your estate’s expense, then have a ball.

But if you go swimming in known dangerous conditions, the coast guard or the lifeguards are still coming for you - at great personal risk to themselves. No bueno.

On the surface, not wearing a motorcycle helmet doesn’t really seem to put anyone else at risk - but there should be a law that unhelmed motorcyclists should never be allowed to sue anyone else for their injuries.
 
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Isn't it all just risk tolerance? What about people who hang glide or skydive or climb El Capitan without ropes or safety gear? I'm not interested in doing those things, nor am I interested in riding motorcycles, in part because I think they are dangerous. But don't we all get to choose our own risk tolerance for things like that?
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Non-helmeted motorcyclists impact our automobile insurance rates because they will end up with higher medical bills and that cost transfers to the rest of us. If we could move the costs of any accident entirely back to the yahoo not wearing a helmet, then I couldn’t care less. But that’s simply not how it works in the real world.
 
A guide to sh-t hole Congressional districts. They appear to have something in common.

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