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Originally Posted by Michael G.
Your example here is false in many ways.
Here's just one:
There are a lot less cycle owners with or without helmets that qualify for your comparison to anything to do with the above.
You mention the term: I don't want the law telling me this and that."
I'll bet you must have a hell of a time when the laws say you need to pay your taxes.  |
You are correct. I absolutely do have a very difficult time with paying some of the nonsensical taxes we have to pay. A certain group of people also had a problem with taxation in the 1770's. I understand paying taxes for defense and police , etc. I have no issue with that. And exactly what is wrong with someone saying that they don't want the nanny government telling them what to do all the time when it doesn't harm anyone but themselves? I am not part of the flock of sheeple that is willing to bend to the governments intrusive, and many times constitutionally illegal regulations. Do you not have a limit to how much the government tells you what to do, or do you just blindly follow anything they tell you to do no matter how imposing it is on your personal freedom and rights? I comply with seat belt laws and would do the same with helmet laws if I were in a state that requires you wear them. I would wear one on my own anyway. I advocate wearing motorcycle helmets. Since there is no requirement in Florida to wear motorcycle helmets there is no law being broken and I'm in agreement with that. So you see I personally have no problem with the regulation in Florida as it is. The problem I have is when these agitators against current legal laws say that there should be a decree demanding that helmets should be mandated because they feel having the freedom of personal choice of not wearing a helmet raises healthcare insurance costs. And again so does obesity, lung cancer from smoking, driving fast cars. Freedom costs! I keep repeating that and somehow my comments are misinterpreted as those of being a contrarian scofflaw, when actually the law says you are not required to wear helmets. That fact seems to be lost to some. So who is being the contrarian here? I rode motorcycles many years and wore a helmet. I wear seatbelts every time I drive or ride in a car. I am in favor of wearing them and would not think of traveling without doing so. I am just not in favor of the government telling me I have to wear them when it only endangers me. Why is that so difficult for some people to understand when it is plainly explained in detail? What would you think if the government said you had to be in bed by 9pm every night because that is better for your health and will keep the costs of healthcare insurance down? What if they mandated wearing helmets in golf carts. I just so happened to have attended a golf cart safety seminar yesterday and a guest sheriff's deputy said many people in golf cart accidents are ejected from the golf carts and are seriously injured or killed. I don't hear anybody advocating wearing helmets while riding in golf carts. If they did come up with a rule saying that you had to wear a motorcycle helmet in a golf cart how would that impact your peripheral vision? It's hard enough to see from inside a golf cart with all the blind spots. Would that be a good idea? How many regulations are enough, especially when it does not impact the safety and the heath of others? There are people advocating censorship of speech now for "the good and safety of society". Does not personal liberty, free choice, or the Constitution mean anything anymore? Apparently not to far too many people nowadays.