Old 06-30-2020, 04:15 PM
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I am a big fan of people making their own lifestyle decisions without the government mandating them. However with that being said and not being sure if I am a cynical optimist or an optimistic cynic I can't help but remember this bit of insight from comedian Jerry Seinfeld:

"There are many things, that you can point to, that humans, are not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be, that we had to invent the helmet. What was happening, apparently, is that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads.

We chose not to avoid these activities but instead come up with some sort of device to help us to continue to enjoy, our headcracking lifestyle.

The helmet.

Even that didn't work, because enough people weren't wearing them, so we had to come up with the helmet law, which is even stupider because the idea behind the helmet law is to preserve a brain, who's judgement is so poor, that it doesn't even try to prevent the cracking of the head it's in!"


and with that I am out. :~)




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