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Bicycle helmets are a cultural thing, a kind of uniform to show everyone that you are a "bicycle rider" and not just a filthy normie.
by otabdeveloper4 3y ago
Bicycle helmets are a cultural thing, a kind of uniform to show everyone that you are a "bicycle rider" and not just a filthy normie.
- EasyMark 3y agoThat is a broad generalization that can't be right. I wear a helmet because I don't want to bust my head open like a dropped cantaloupe. Am I missing something here? Same when I'm on a motorcycle. I've never lived anywhere that adults -had- to wear a helmet, but kids often are required to, legally speaking.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoThere's a lot of nuance here. I wouldn't want to bust my wrists or knees either, but nobody seems to care about that for some reason.
- AlexAndScripts 3y agoI've had a serious head injury, though not from cycling. Hurting your limbs is painful and may cause you to lose mobility. Brain damage affects your very ego and ability to experience the world - permanently. I have a headache and fatigue as I write this comment, my eyes aren't quite focused on the text like they used to be, and I am considerably less intelligent than I was. This will probably last for the rest of my life - for most of my existence. It's difficult to put into words just how soul-crushing it is to have your inner monologue disrupted, slowed, and impaired. To sit in a class and listen, just as you used to, yet not comprehend or learn. To sit in front of your IDE expecting to accomplish a once-trivial task, yet feel nothing but overwhelming nausea and your working memory being overloaded. It hammers home that consciousness is not special and that we're nothing more than biological machines. Protect that consciousness. It is precious and it is vulnerable. Wear a helmet.