This world is messed up, It means leave me the hell alone you weirdo. So: a good issue - if you are bitching that the helmets do nothing (I've tested them on the business end of a harassing-driver incident, I do not agree), then why not move on to next and look at why the technology that would solve a lot of potential head-injuries is not pressing forward. Carla: the nation was not founded on "my" rights. Stop Doggin' Me. There are much, much bigger fish to fry. How would you enforce it? Don't try and take up room in my space, time or mind anymore.
Rose writes in similar spirit: My hubby and I debated this last night (silly me, he can barely tolerate seat belts after all) but when it came down to it, his position wasn't really about whether he has the right not to wear a helmet, but rather with law enforcement being so broken, racially/economically oppressive, politicized, and corrupt (in his point of view) he really doesn't think giving cops one more reason to detain citizens is worth the risk of infringing civil liberties.
Idk not much of a slang talker. "Dogging" a person means "following relentlessly". Like a puppy dog following its owner all over the place and getting under foot. Don't change the subject just because you said something embarrassingly stupid. You missed the rest, it seems. For starters, mere interests and inclinations are not civil rights. The state requires insurance, right? The weight almost guarantees a neck injury, your neck is made for the weight of your head and a bit of abuse. I think you're right about the libertarian streak that runs through Oregon and the west. Many states are banning the use of cell phones while driving. Again, your comment kind of makes my point about picking on the little guys for no apparent reason when their are plenty more egregious areas to address. Hsp100 1 1 views. You'd have to prove to me that it costs me a lot of money to pay for the medical expenses of the bicycle riders that were injured for the lack of a helmet. As a motorcyclist who has had some really interesting wrecks of the slo-mo as well as the high speed freeway kind, I cannot say enough about the use of the right gear to fit the risks and vulnerabilities of a particular mode of transport. It's the equivalent of driving drunk. As a rule, the western U.S. seems to be a region whose citizens have a strong preference for government to remain out of their personal decisions. I came to just as the paramedics were asking me how many fingers... Then they put me in a bus and took me to a trauma center, where I spent the next six hours being examined by an incredible team of specialists.
This was the time when campus speech codes were sweeping through small northeast colleges, and they didn't understand how a good liberal could oppose such codes. The slippery slope is in the net effect on society. I can see where I could be persueded that requiring helmets should be law but not right now.
Some have confused this ethos with the ideas of the Libertarian Party, specifically in economic terms. dogging me. Jeff Golden Rick North no one has the right to endanger themself in public. Choosing to harm one's self in favor of our own selfish notion of personal rights is not a good use of common sense. (The week I arrived in Portland, temperatures were over one hundred and Portland was having one of its inversions.) These aren't precise #'s, but they're close (as is the ratio). Miles, speech codes -- as well as things that weren't that but got called in in the anti-"p.c." Now, I don't ride a bicycle often, maybe twice a decade at this stage of my life. you, who made your choice, or me? Until we add laws and policies that make our roads more suitable for the dual use as well as enhancing traffic patrol to enforce those laws a helmet law is going to be pretty meaningless. Again, this seems like a solution in search of a problem. The guy who broke the law had to fork over some money and probably has quite a sting in his insurance. Oh and T.A.