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Originally Posted by Sliver
Well you would be chastised if you had your kid in the car without a seatbelt. Or an infant not in a car seat. A car has crumple zones, airbags, side impact beams, and seat belts. If you aren't using all of the safety features a car has to offer, you're being super stupid.
Wearing a helmet while tobogganing is safer than tobogganing without a helmet. That's basic. I'd feel like a total idiot if my helmetless kid was concussed while tobogganing when there are perfectly good helmets hanging off hooks in my garage right beside where we grabbed the sleds. Don't put your kid in a helmet while he flies down a hill, idgaf, but hopefully you can at least accept that kids are better off in helmets than they are without.
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The underlying point is that no, you're not using all the safety features available to you when driving a car. You could add a helmet to the mix and be even safer. Not wearing a helmet while driving, when a perfectly good one is hanging right there in the garage, right beside the car, is being super stupid.
Its all rhetorical really. Again, everything has risk and benefit tied to it. Ultimate safety would involve doing nothing in life. Who knows where the line is to be drawn. For some tobogganing is risky enough for a helmet, some it isn't.