Explain to you how all this mistaken denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and we will give you a complete account of the system, and expound on the actual teachings.
Mistaken denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and we will give you a complete account of the system expound.
Admittedly a much higher percentage of the population are motorcycle riders in Bangladesh than in the U.S. Because of this, and the scourge of citizens riding without protection, the country faces a huge motorcycle fatality rate. Motorcycle crashes were responsible for 32 percent of all road crashes in the country last year, killing 2,152 people and injuring a further 1,339. The country has had a helmet mandate since 1983, but has struggled to enforce the law effectively. Starting this month the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has started testing a new incentive to wear a helmet; without a lid, you can’t buy gas.
Many helmetless two-wheelers in the U.S. claim that it is an infringement on their freedom to require a helmet. In the event of a crash unhelmeted riders are significantly more likely to die or receive a traumatic brain injury, much more likely to require admission to an intensive care unit, their hospital stays are much longer, and they require much longer rehabilitation procedures. Much like seatbelts, helmets are (and should be considered) a public issue. These dickheads riding around without helmets aren’t just affecting themselves, they’re boosting the insurance rates of us sensible helmet wearers.
Let’s kick off a conversation about all this nonsense. How would you, a smart person, make a small change to get non-helmet motorcyclists to wear their damn helmets? Do you think a no-helmet-no-gas law would be effective?