Economy pirat island style
It's a scam.
In most developed countries, helmet, like seat belt-, laws are usually meant to mitigate risk of own AND third party injury usually covered by insurance companies. A common but seldom term is risk reciprocity: When you drive a vehicle, you assume TWO risks: 1). to cause an accident and 2) to be harmed by others causing an accident. Since one takes BOTH risks (#1) quite lightly), we are to protect ourselves so that the we are not at excessive risk of harm, harm which may become other's liability. So, one can't say "it's MY head, so if I don't want to protect it, it's my business!". Because it creates a greater LIABILITY risk to other who may cause a head injury which may have been prevented.
Anyways, a difficult to explain concept, especially since HERE where the concepts of responsibility, liability, risks and risk prevention are still quite misunderstood if discussed at all. So, I suspect, that's most certainly NOT the driving factor for the recent Helmet law enforcement.
Here, I think, somebody just worked out a deal of a lifetime with the government and AMET to import and force the sale of hundreds of thousands cheap worthless helmets upon this Nation's population.
It's a round deal for everybody and it could even be mistaken as "economy": The importer gets a "guaranteed" sale, resellers get to carry a "hot" article, AMET fills up the state bank and meet their yearly ticket quotas at once and PN's make some easy tip money to let stopped muertoahoritas slip for yet another round. :cheeky:
Similarly, soon we will HAVE to have fire extinguishers in every car and maybe also carry a bright yellow road side emergency jacket... and, and, and...
... J-D
