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**Bill Z.**

writes:

On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:01:14 GMT, (Bill Z.)
wrote:

Your own "reasoning" would suggest that wearing helmets in a
construction zone (as construction workers sometimes must do)
discourages people from entering that line of work. Do you think
anyone believes that?

Your extension is false and without merit.

Nope (and you snipped what you had stated to hid the fact that
I gave you an apropos analogy).

I think it quite likely that some people choose not to seek employment
in situations that they consider dangerous - and reasonably so if the
danger is real, and the compensation insufficient. That construction
workers are required to wear helmets I assume is a different situation
from cyclists being similarly required; the difference being both that
construction IS dangerous and their helmets ARE protective.

You aren't addressing the issue, which was whether you think that
merely requiring helmets while on a job site discourages people from
wanting to be construction workers - that is basically what you said
about bicycle helmets.

I might add that some construction workers will probably tell you that
riding a bicycle in traffic is too dangerous to contemplate. It isn't
the helmets, but knowing that they lack the skill to ride in traffic
(and not knowing that such skills can be learned).

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