'Tis indeed.
I'm fully in favor of people having choice. If you want to select yourself out of the gene pool, that's your right and privilege.
When on a Harley or other heavy, fast-moving qua motorized bike, I can see the point of protective gear.
Where it gets a tad out of plumb is requiring a helmet for riding a bicycle and the ostensible logic behind such. How many kids do you know while growing up who didn't fall off their bikes (an essential ingredient in learning how to ride and a rite/'right' of passage, so to speak) and who subsequently became vegetables because of a 'lack' of a helmet?!
I never knew of one.
