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- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ole!ssc!markz
- From: markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier)
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Distribution: seattle
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:38:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.203820.18234@ssc.com>
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- Donn F. Pedro (dfpedro@nv2.uswnvg.com) wrote:
- :
- : :But I'm up for the same degree of police harrasment.
- :
- : On that I agree with you 100%. But what supposes the others are more
- : deserving of police harassment? I'm not trying to read into your post,
- : but it sure reads that way.
-
- Claims are made by the pro-helmet posters that bicycling is a VERY
- DANGEROUS activity. Which in my experience, (aside from crossing
- railroad tracks ;-) ), it isn't. But I observe a couple of groups that
- go out of their way to indulge in what I see as additional risks.
- So I conclude that the dangers come from the different activities
- these people indulge in. And because of these activites, I'm going to
- be inconvenienced by wearing a helmet or be the target of police
- "interest".
-
- Mark Zenier markz@ssc.wa.com
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