pathfinder wrote:
Sorry, dude. You're way off base. You're comparing two totally separate things. You're comparing someone getting in an accident with someone owning a motorcycle.
Let's compare apples to apples. Someone not wearing a seatbelt in a car gets in an accident. Someone riding a motorcycle gets in an accident. Do the cost/benefit on that. Tell me who comes out better.
If you want to compare gas mileage between cars and motorcycles, the motorcycle wins. Yay.
I think you've had a few head injuries.
Motorcycles are more dangerous than cars. Nobody argues that. They also have benefits a car doesn't have. What those benefits are worth is up for debate, but is debatable.
Riding in car with no seatbelt is more dangerous than riding in a car with a seatbelt. There is no benefit to being unbuckled.
Thus a rational choice exists between motorcycle and car. No rational choice has been presented between belt and no belt.
Got it? Probably not. But many people do, and that's why the laws are what they.