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eoghanmurray,
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@frankPodmore @gowan
"Promoting the use of bicycle helmets runs counter to ... policies that are aimed at the primary prevention of crashes (as opposed to secondary prevention [of injuries])"
"Attempts to promote bicycle helmets should not have the negative effect of incorrectly linking cycling and danger."
https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/eu-road-safety-policy/priorities/safe-road-use/cyclists/pros-and-cons-regarding-bicycle-helmet-legislation_en

eoghanmurray,
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@frankPodmore @gowan I guess the idea is that if you mandate helmets it will reduce bicycle use (which may be part of the reason you'll seeess deaths). Less cyclists in an area raises the risks for those cyclists that remain. Drivers feel more comfortable with helmeted cyclists, and studies show they drive closer to those cyclists that wear helmets compared with those that don't (see 'risk compensation')
I wear a helmet cycling kids to school fwiw.

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@bojacobs @histodons The Dawn of Everything is a great book on this subject (that it's not the case that complex prehistoric societies were necessarily hierarchical)
It also talks about how the Eurocentric myth of societal progress came about as a reaction to the fact that pre European Native American societies were more egalitarian. Also that the idea of democracy was imported from North America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

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