Re: Raisin heading home

Michael Press wrote:
In article <1146633179.886821.57960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
amit.ghosh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Tom Kunich wrote:
This is why I don't like helmets. Before helmets the first thing a falling
person thought about was to protect his head. Now people DON'T think about
it. "*** man, that's what I got a helmet for." I'm glad I learned to ride
motorcycles and crash before there were helmets.

you're a fucking idiot. NO ONE thinks like that.

Everyone thinks like that. It is well substantiated in the literature. It is universally and thunderingly denied everywhere else. People adjust their behavior to their own level of risk assessment and risk taking. In all situations they adjust upward their risk taking when provided with measures they believe will ameliorate the harmful consequences of contrary eventualities.

Holy crap, I should have been wearing a helmet before I read that last
sentence... My head frickin' hurts. ;)

Did you really just use the words 'ameliorate' and 'contrary
eventualities' in the same sentence??? ;)

~bob
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