Re: ROPS-Use It

Posted by JD70Jim on April 29, 2001 at 10:57:54 from (64.197.39.105):

In Reply to: ROPS-Use It posted by BB on April 27, 2001 at 05:08:25:

Sixteen years ago, I rode my recently acquired BMW K100RS motorcycle to see some friends who lived halfway across the state. During the visit, I mentioned that I felt everyone should wear a helmet. One of them said "You know, some guys just can't afford a helmet". They could afford a $7000 motorcycle but not a $100 helmet?

If you find a teenager puffing on a cigarret, try and tell them that smoking will eventually, and horribly, kill them.

Like the above mentioned examples, many people live in a state of denial. Firm in the belief that nothing can happen to them, they blissfully carry on until it does. At that time, the eager to smoke smoker with cancer will blame the cigarret company for making him/her smoke, the motorcyclist will, assuming he/she survives blame everyone else but themselves and expect enormous sympathy from all and sundry, and the family of the dead farme, crushed under his non rops equiped tractor will wail "how could this happen? There outta be a law! Big government PLEASE make it better".

Denial of the risk, denial of the responsibility, and denial of the blame. I have regretably come to conclude that these are self inflicted injuries, caused because the people involved were willing to risk th chance and wouldn't believe the odds against them.

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