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So why not do the reasonable thing and provide passengers with helmets, like they do with motorbike taxi?
by GuB-42 4y ago
So why not do the reasonable thing and provide passengers with helmets, like they do with motorbike taxi?
- Brian_K_White 4y agoWho decided that was reasonable? I certainly did not.
- breakfastduck 4y agoYou dont think its reasonable to offer passengers the option to wear a helmet? I suppose it's also not reasonable to provide seatbelts to passengers as well as the driver of a taxi?
- Brian_K_White 4y ago"You dont think its reasonable to offer passengers the option to wear a helmet?" No. Which means it's not automatically "the reasonable thing", just an opinion.
- mcherm 4y agoJust because one person disagrees doesn't mean it isn't reasonable. I've met people who (claim to) believe the earth is flat, but surely no one would consider that belief "reasonable". So I'm curious what the REASONING is behind your feeling that offering passengers the option to wear a helmet is unreasonable. Personally, I would AGREE that offering passengers on a pedicab the option of a pineapple would be unreasonable. There just isn't any practical correlation between pineapples and pedicabs. But helmets are different: there are large numbers of people who campaign vigorously to persuade others to wear helmets when on a bike; many places even have laws mandating helmets on bikes, at least for some ages. So it is a plausible thing for passengers to want. Given that, why would it be unreasonable to offer it?
- Brian_K_White 4y ago
- mint2 4y agoOne of the hackers news guidelines is to take the generous view of comments rather than reply based on the most negative readings. Often the negative readings can turn out to be an uncommon, Nonstandard interpretation. Yes The context of the scope of the word “the” in the comment that you’re replying to is not specifically written out, but most people and the poster will infer it to be the context of the binary choice being discussed, either offer or not offer helmets to passengers, and not the global choice of offering them hover boards, bags of octopus, or helmets or etc
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI don't understand why I'm not allowed to point out that the comment presumes. Someon's feelings do not define that which is reasonable for anyone else but theirself. But the comment presumes it is. The comment skips past the arguability of that position as though it were not arguable, and all I said was that this is in fact arguable. Whatever your problem with that is, isn't valid.
- pessimizer 4y agoDeclaring things "reasonable" based on nothing is like declaring things "common sense" based on nothing. The only way to disagree is to be unreasonable and stupid. It's the kind of thing you say when you're demanding people agree with you, not convincing them to.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoThis. ffs.
- ModernMech 4y ago> Given that, why would it be unreasonable to offer it? I'd worry about lice.
- dymk 4y agoLice
- GuB-42 4y agoIt is a consideration, but there are solutions, like disposable caps. There are also sanitizing sprays. It wouldn't be the first time people share helmets. Also, the idea is to offer an option. Not to make it mandatory unless legislation require it. If your passengers are more comfortable not wearing them, their choice.
- watwut 4y agoIt makes the activity look dangerous. I do perceive motorbike taxi as more dangerous then, say, car.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 4y agoIt should not be a reasonable basis for denying their employees right to wear PPE.