[ramraj07]

This is thoughtful but stupid because it goes in the wrong direction - new York is already at being close to the pinnacle of protecting people from their own stupidity so to speak - does this person take zero responsibility for ambling in the dark on an unknown terrace without looking _while_ drunk? When do we tell people they are just clumsy and need to own up to it? Many new york rooftops are closed for this reason because their insurance premium goes up, thanks to people like this author.

We definitely lived through times when not everyone was attached to a safety harness when going to a protection less terrace. I understand the absolute need for employee protection in a work environment, but as long as precautions are taken so that truly vulnerable populations (kids) can't be harmed even when they are paying attention, communities need to grow up and not coddle everyone's laziness to pay attention to their surroundings like this.

See for example rules done right in this regard - Amsterdam doesn't mandate helmets for bikers.

[barbs]

Also in Amsterdam - canals mostly have no railings along their canals to prevent people from falling in.

I heard a story that dead bodies of men kept getting found in the canals with alcohol in their blood and their flies undone. As you can probably guess, intoxicated men were attempting to urinate in the canals and ended up falling in and drowning. Rather than building railings, they built more public urinals.

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> Amsterdam doesn't mandate helmets for bikers

The whole Netherlands, in fact.

I was under the impression that very few countries mandate helmets for cyclists. Australia, NZ, anywhere else?

[sgerenser]

In the U.S. most states have a helmet law but only for children: https://www.helmets.org/mandator.htm

[yownie]

He's just an idiot as far as I'm concerned.

[ramraj07]

Idiot only if he didn't learn from it. No one needs to be chastized for one momentary lapse in judgement, as long as they own up to it.

[Hnrobert42]

The article is well written, so I don’t think he is an idiot. He made a mistake.