Sun, 18 Jun 2006

Fla. motorcycle fatalities reportedly soar

Proving that the stupid remove themselves from the gene pool rather automatically...

If the State has a legitimate function, it is protection of it's citizens from aggression and fraud. It is not the duty of the State to protect one from oneself. Imagine a place where all activities that could be harmful to someone were banned. Would you really want to live in a place with no peanuts or swimming pools, no motorcycles or skydiving, no automobiles or hiking trails?

Life is inherently dangerous and risky - and a life without danger or risk isn't really living at all. It's up to the individual to make decisions involving risks for their own life: delegating this responsibility to the State would create a dystopia the likes of which the world has never seen.

AP - Motorcycle fatalities involving riders without helmets have soared in the nearly six years since Gov. Jeb Bush repealed the state's mandatory helmet law, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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On 6/18/2006 17:17:27
Walter Jeffries wrote

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