Comments on: Whose Brain Is It In That Bucket? http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ron http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37746 Ron Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:37:34 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37746 Check out this site.
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]]> By: Kevin http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37667 Kevin Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:01:14 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37667

For those of you who are advocating cutting off free medical care for motorcyclists who ride without helmets, why don’t you just cut off medical care for motorcycle riders entirely?

Brad, I’m for cutting off free medical care to just about everybody.

Cutting it off first for the willfully stupid is more popular than just ending free government health care in general.

]]> By: Jeff Molby http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37659 Jeff Molby Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:08:29 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37659

If you want to get rid of helmet laws, then I agree that car safety standards should also go.

The government mandated safety standards, yes. Private industry is, of course, always free to develop its own standards.

Air bags, ABS, bumpers, seat belts…all optional equipment, right?

You just listed a bunch of things that were all invented by the free market. They all started out as optional components on high-end vehicles and then reached the mass market as they became cost-effective.

The effect of government safety regulations has been minimal.

]]> By: Brian Garrett http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37658 Brian Garrett Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:57:17 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37658 These laws only require you to wear a helmet while on public roads. If you’re on private property you can do whatever you want. If the racetrack allowed you to ride without a helmet, that would be your choice. But they don’t give you that choice, do they? In fact, every track I’m aware of requires that you wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle, even OFF the track.

On the road, people make mistakes and motorcyclists are injured. Somebody turns into the path of a bike, and the rider goes down. While this is certainly a horrible accident, there is no reason that the cage driver should have to deal with the consequences of a fatality if a helmet would have prevented it. My insurance rates (auto and health) would be higher without a GA helmet law, so I’m glad we have it.

If you want to get rid of helmet laws, then I agree that car safety standards should also go. Air bags, ABS, bumpers, seat belts…all optional equipment, right? I hear the slippery slope argument, but I just don’t buy it in this case.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37600 Brad Warbiany Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:50:58 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37600 For those of you who are advocating cutting off free medical care for motorcyclists who ride without helmets, why don’t you just cut off medical care for motorcycle riders entirely?

After all, motorcycles are not safe vehicles, helmet or not. After all, if the standard that you’re going to follow is that we shouldn’t subsidize people who willingly engage in dangerous behavior, why stop at helmets?

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37599 Brad Warbiany Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:49:17 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37599 Joel,

Thanks for recognizing that it wasn’t a typo ;-)

]]> By: Joel http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37596 Joel Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:42:21 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37596 Wow, you must be the only person in the world that knows that it’s “champing at the bit” and not “chomping at the bit” or worse “chomping on the bit”.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37574 Kevin Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:24:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37574 In a perfect world, without government funded health care, I would agree. However, if a bill that allows people to ride motorcycles without a helmet does not include exempting helmetless riders from free government healthcare for their stupidity; I probably would not support it because all it would do is force taxpayers to bear the burden of subsidizing stupidity.

]]> By: Bob http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37567 Bob Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:18:47 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37567 If we can mandate wearing helmets because not doing so increases health costs we can outlaw smoking based on the same argument. How far are we from outlawing fast food or mandating that people eat their vegetables? Where do we stop the nanny state?

]]> By: Ryan Walker http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37565 Ryan Walker Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:04:42 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37565 In order to ride skid lid less a legally binding signed document in which a helmetless head injury victim waives any government assistance is the answer. As a lifelong 2 wheeler I’m all for personal choice. But I don’t want to saddled with the massive cost of subsidizing the care and tube feeding of some squid who refused to take personal responsibility for their decision to leave their brain and body unprotected. Like the fine line between clever and stupid there is a fine line between nanny and ninny.

]]> By: Stephen Macklin http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37551 Stephen Macklin Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:35:17 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/09/13/whose-brain-is-it-in-that-bucket/#comment-37551 “There is no more blatant example of the nanny state than helmet laws.”

I’d put seat belt laws up against helmet laws as a worse nanny-state intrusion.

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