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- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!alpinist
- From: alpinist@eskimo.com (David Butler)
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.194135.14016@eskimo.com>
- Keywords: Helmet Laws, Drug Laws, etc.
- Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
- References: <1992Dec16.173510.6862@tc.fluke.COM> <klg.724617851@statsci> <1992Dec19.014455.11049@tc.fluke.COM>
- Distribution: seattle
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:41:35 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Dec19.014455.11049@tc.fluke.COM> lowell@tc.fluke.COM (Lowell Skoog) writes:
- >klg@statsci.com (Kevin L. Gross) writes:
-
- >>You conveniently and completely ignored my point
- >>that *YOUR* sport of mountain climbing is far more dangerous than riding
- >>a bike/motorcycle without a helmet, not only to yourself but to possible
- >>rescuers. But since no one is coming after *YOUR* freedom, you say its OK
- >>to eliminate *MINE*.
-
- >I ignored your point because it didn't seem relevant. You were
- >talking about outlawing climbing. Nobody is talking about outlawing
- >bicycling.
-
- Instead of ignoring his point because of irrelevance why don't you ignore
- the point because it is WRONG! Mountain climbing is not far more dangerous
- than riding a bike/motorcycle with or without a helmet. Statistically
- bicycling is one of the most dangeous activities there is.
-
-
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- * alpinist@eskimo.com * before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll *
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