Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws

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117. you leave out a lot of the gaps

you write:

"In post 52, you basically called someone "stupid." In post 75, you called me a "motherfucking safety gestapo." In post 106, you called me "an arrogant pusbag"."

In post #9, that poster called everybody who disagreed with him stupid and said there should be a law against stupidity. In post #52, I suggested that they would be in violation of their own law. In post 75, I did not call you "motherfucking safety gestapo" unless you are actually a cop who would write a bicyclist a ticket for not wearing a helmet. No, no, no, you are the control freak who would pass the law forcing the hardworking cop to become a safety gestapo as part of their job. I said "go ahead an write me a ticket ..." Unless the first part fits you (ticket writing) then the second doesn't either. I sorta apologize for that confusion, but, not really, since it would be people like you who would be empowering and encouraging the safety gestapo to harrass me and steal my money while I am on my way to work.

In post 106 I did call you an arrogant pus-bag. This, after you closed your own post with a jibe about how there is nothing in my head between my ears.

Or did you forget that part? You don't think it was arrogant of you to write something like that? And to try to be cute about it? Am I just supposed to sit here and take insults without making a response or objection?

As for the statistics having a reputable source. Again, what difference does that make? So the average age of a deceased bicyclist is accurate. So the fuck what? How does that prove that I need to wear a helmet? Any more than the accurate atomic weight of molybdenum proves that I need to wear a helmet.

And so some people get traumatic brain injuries? Some people win the powerball too. Giving an example of one or two such random people from anecdotes do not prove either that I am an idiot for not buying a powerball ticket nor for making four trips on my bicycle this very night (oh the horror) without a helmet.

Oh, and I might call you a hateful name? Why on earth would I do that? It's not like you just got done insulting me - AGAIN. With "oh, I almost forgot, you are a liar" and "you have already given us a wide window into your character." Those were not meant to be insulting?

Again though, I consider control-freak to be a descriptor. How else would YOU describe somebody who wants to DICTATE the choices of others in regard to THEIR OWN safety?

But I noticed that I was caught in my own trap, since I am apparently trying to control the people who want to control me, as it were. I would DICTATE that they leave me the fuck alone, instead of just allowing them to get their control freak on.