[jamil7]

In Australia this is not just for minors, you can be fined as an adult for cycling without a helmet which is even more absurd when you look at the lack of cycling infrastructure in Australian cities and the general cultural distain towards cyclists.

[the5avage]

You dont even have sidewalks to go by foot. You are in general cultural distain towards anything that is not a big 4WD car.

[threeseed]

If you are seriously injured and/or disabled then your fellow taxpayers will be paying for your health care either through Medicare or the NDIS.

In a society it's not fair for your selfish actions to have a negative effect on everyone else.

[jamil7]

An active society reduces the burden on public health care, take a look at the obesity rates in Australia, especially childhood obesity, shouldn't we also regulate lifestyle choices that contribute to this? How about the explosion of massive 4WDs in Australia? Are you not also subsidising the health care burden those? If you want to keep cyclists safe then build more bike lanes.

[johnisgood]

It is an excellent defense, because similar logic is often resisted when it comes to regulating lifestyle and food consumption - even though complications from obesity impose a much greater, and growing, financial burden on public healthcare systems.

[hooverd]

Show me your car helmet advocacy. Now.

[plantain]

Why single out cycling for this special purview?

Are you planning to ban all snowsports? Horse riding? They produce similar or higher levels of injury and disability even with helmets.

>it's not fair for your selfish actions to have a negative effect on everyone else.

If negative externalities are the metric we're evaluating what is and isn't allowed in our society, you're really going to take a pass at cyclist helmets instead of cars? Do you know what the leading cause of child death in Australia is? It's cars