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Subject:   Helmets and Seatbelts are Apples and Oranges
Name:   Bruce Arnold
Date Posted:   Apr 22, 07 - 12:12 PM
Email:   Bruce@LdrLongDistanceRider.com
Website:   http://pub42.bravenet.com/forum/3562429698/fetch/779671/
Message:   Frank,

You and I have had this discussion before:

http://pub42.bravenet.com/forum/3562429698/fetch/779671/

I see your position has not changed. Neither has mine:

"To suggest that invoking the 14th Amendment might subject us to wearing seat belts on our bikes is a spurious argument. Helmets and seatbelts are apples and oranges. The difference is that helmets affix an object to our body (head), so their protection is the same, regardless of where our body is, or what it is doing. Seatbelts, on the other hand, affix our body to an object. The belt in and of itself offers no protection whatsoever, and may instead assure quite the opposite."

For an alternative view of the equal protection argument, I suggest you read this:

Time to Put the SHOEI on the Other Foot
http://pub42.bravenet.com/forum/3562429698/fetch/708594/


Bruce
Replies:    
Re: Helmets and Seatbelts are Apples and Oranges by Frank Langben · Apr 22, 07 - 12:22 PM
Let's Stay On Point by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 12:41 PM
Re: Let's Stay On Point by Frank Langben · Apr 22, 07 - 4:54 PM
Like I Said, Let's Stay On Point by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 6:27 PM
Correction by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 7:02 PM
Re: Like I Said, Let's Stay On Point by Frank Langben · Apr 22, 07 - 9:08 PM
Put Up or Shut Up, Frank by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 9:16 PM
Re: Put Up or Shut Up, Frank by Frank Langben · Apr 22, 07 - 9:31 PM
Re: Re: Put Up or Shut Up, Frank by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 9:45 PM
Re: Put Up or Shut Up, Frank by Frank Langben · Apr 22, 07 - 10:03 PM
Re: Re: Put Up or Shut Up, Frank by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 10:10 PM
Re: Re: Put Up or Shut Up, Frank by rc · Apr 23, 07 - 9:06 AM
Re: Re: Like I Said, Let's Stay On Point by rc · Apr 23, 07 - 8:57 AM
Where this posting came from by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 12:17 PM
Note to Madd Ray by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 3:10 PM
A Chilling Image by Bruce Arnold · Apr 22, 07 - 9:04 PM
What Rogue posted Friday applies here too by Bruce Arnold · Apr 23, 07 - 5:35 AM


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