Your Noggin

August 01, 2005

In states that do not have mandatory helmet laws, is there lesser liability for the operator a car/truck/tractor/cow that knocks a motorcyclist to the pavement and they die as the result of a head injury?

I can support one's desire to choose the risks they take with their own life (wearing a seatbelt, skydiving, debating politics), I just don't want to get sued when their cow darts in front of me and they aren't wearing a helmet.

4 Comments:

At 6:25 AM, August 02, 2005, Helmet Head said...: I also support one's right to be stupid, but acts by the stupid easily have an indirect impact on everybody else's wallets. Medical/insurance costs grow, not because of the people who care for their bodies properly, but because of the people who don't.

So if I'm not wearing a helmet, and I go to the emergency room, or I don't exercise, and end up with heart disease, the cost of those treatments affect insurance costs for everyone.

So do people have a responsible to other people "in the system" or what?
At 8:05 AM, August 02, 2005, Stevie said...: I don't know a single person who can give a valid argument as to why it is a good idea NOT to wear a helmet. Law or not. Just wear one. Your noggin will thank you.
At 4:00 PM, August 02, 2005, Jennifer said...: Drinkspiller readers are quite a healthy bunch. Look how easily we diverted ourselves from political debate.

I do, however, want to go skydiving. Woohoo!
At 7:41 PM, August 02, 2005, Anonymous said...: There are a myriad of reasons not to wear a helmet:

The wind in your hair, even though I don't have any.

Chicks dig it.

It's a middle finger to the "Man."