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- From: donn@brat.wa.com (Donn Pedro)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general,pnw.general
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Message-ID: <1384@brat.wa.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:24:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.080058.13911@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Tandemonium, Kent, WA
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- In article <1992Dec26.080058.13911@microsoft.com> davevh@microsoft.com (Dave Van Horn) writes:
- >On a deaths per hour of
- >participation basis, bicycling even without a helmet is statistically far
- >safer than, eg, rock climbing and hang gliding. So if helmetless biking is
- >too dangerous to be legal, shouldn't rock climbing and hang gliding also
- >be illegal?
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- You compare a requirement to wear a helmet in one sport with the
- actual banning of others?
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- There is a difference between doing an activity with a reduction in
- risk and not doing it at all.
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- That may not be what you meant, but ....
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- Donn Pedro ....................a.k.a. donn@brat.wa.com
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- "You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?"
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- There are no ordinary moments.
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