It's entirely situational. Very small children? Yes. Very steep or fast hill? Yes. Every child on every hill? No.
We went tobogganing today and none of the five kids we were with wore helmets. We judged the hill and the age of kids to be safe. Could they have got hurt? Of course. Kids can get hurt doing any physical activity.
Sadly, society seems to have tremendous difficulty these days with the notion of judgement and assessing degrees of risk. Everyone wants binary yes/no answers to every question. Safe or Not Safe. Combine that with a growing tendency to think in terms of a worst-case scenario and you have a climate of unthinking anxiety. Not to mention judgement and shaming of anyone who crosses some imaginary line.
No doubt some of those people giving the OP grief about not wearing helmets are reckless enough to sometimes drive on the highway with their families, an activity that can result in the sudden and horribly violent death of all involved. I'm willing to bet they haven't the faintest idea of the relative risks of driving versus tobogganing.
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