Sorry, but I believe in personal responsibility. Anybody who does anything and doesn't have a clue as to what they're getting into is simply asking for trouble. It is very regrettable when someones personal decision costs them their lives, but nobody has ever successfully claimed that life is fair...
As far as your poster girl, she has stated that it was her own fault for getting on a bike without protective gear... and now actively campaigns for ATGATT...
I could support a law stating that all motorcyclists were banned from having passengers for the first two years of their license. I could support a law stating that anyone under 21 could not have passengers under 21. But for the nanny state to single out sport bikes just because a few passengers trusted the wrong people or made misinformed choices is not something I can or will support...
I soon expect a law banning death, totaly unenforceable
LOL, we already have that. Suicide is illegal, but its kinda hard to bring the justice system to bear on the offenders !Not really, Dr assisted suicide is legal in WA state, lots of hoops, but legal none the less. If I eat 25 Triple whoppers a day and die of fatness, is it illegal?
Not really, Dr assisted suicide is legal in WA state, lots of hoops, but legal none the less. If I eat 25 Triple whoppers a day and die of fatness, is it illegal?.Not if you go quick, but if you linger and become a burden on society.....
Not if you go quick, but if you linger and become a burden on society.....\
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I'd like to think that I will raise my kids (they're real young) to think better than this. It's not a terribly useful law, but I don't see it as a bad thing either.
Not to pick on you, but this attitude really perturbs me. So many ways to look at this. The road to hell being paved with good intentions is one of them. Another is the attitude many have that if it isn't effecting me it doesn't matter to me. For example, I don't smoke, can't stand the stuff, but I hate the law here in Arkansas that makes all work environments smoke free. You can't have a smoking section in a restaurant anymore. Like I'm too stupid to choose non-smoking section or choose a different place all together. So the inconvenience to smokers is no sweat to me, but it's a reduction in liberty and dang it, that shouldn't be tolerated.
I suppose I may not be fairly characterizing what you are trying to say, but it's the laissez-faire attitude that bothers me. Hmm, that's ironic. That term really means 'let it be' yet that is sort of the opposite of what this law does. It's the opposite of freedom from state intervention.
She's not my 'poster girl'. But hey that's all cool. I only used it to show that people can think they know what you're getting into, but if the idiot twisting the throttle doesn't, you are in deep stuff. Same with the other two examples.
For sake of discussion, how can someone have a clue if they don't understand bikes. What's the difference between a racy looking modern moped and a sport bike that goes 186 mph to the un-informed?
Mr. 18 year old says 'hey want a ride' to the hot clueless 16 year old (or younger) girl. How could she possibly make an informed decision when she doesn't have a clue? Neither of them are likely to have a lot of common sense in the first place. I know 'cuz I were one once.
We all do lots of pre-emptive things without thinking, only because early 'pioneers' crashed and burned, allowing us and others to learn from their mistakes and / or lack of knowledge.
I don't think you should be able to drive anything on public roads until 18... One of the few things the Brits got right.
Not to pick on you, but this attitude really perturbs me. So many ways to look at this. The road to hell being paved with good intentions is one of them. Another is the attitude many have that if it isn't effecting me it doesn't matter to me. For example, I don't smoke, can't stand the stuff, but I hate the law here in Arkansas that makes all work environments smoke free. You can't have a smoking section in a restaurant anymore. Like I'm too stupid to choose non-smoking section or choose a different place all together. So the inconvenience to smokers is no sweat to me, but it's a reduction in liberty and dang it, that shouldn't be tolerated.
I suppose I may not be fairly characterizing what you are trying to say, but it's the laissez-faire attitude that bothers me. Hmm, that's ironic. That term really means 'let it be' yet that is sort of the opposite of what this law does. It's the opposite of freedom from state intervention.