>It's our society's obsession with safety
No Shit! It's because a bunch of blood sucking lawyers run this country, and set the rules up so its lucritive to sue everybody for everything.
If some shlub is so desperate to get where he's going, he wan't to risk his own life to ride under or ON TOP of the bus, like they do in so many other countries, that's HIS CHOICE.
Our govermental lawyers are so far up everyone's ass, a little old lady with a cane fell on my perfectly smooth professionally installed unobstructed floor... not because I pushed her, or because I negligently left a roller skate on the floor, but just because she's a little old lady living in Earth's gravity... and sure as fuck the bitch sued me. She didn't win, but she sure cost me a bunch of money telling her to go fuck herself and her unstable balance.
We are sooooo far away from people being responsible for themselves, that people aren't even responsible for the laws of physics they have to abide by. It's stupid.
Ride your motorcycle without a helmet, forget your lapbelt, ride on top of a damn bus if you like, it's your life. So long as your drunk ass doesn't cross the centerline and interfere with MY life, I don't see the need for me to get my government and lawyers all up in your business.
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