I must respectfully disagree,if you can prove that you indemnify the public from your bad choices and risk taking, then by all means ride with no helmet. If you can’t do that then the empirical evidence suggests helmets protect not only your mellon but society from having to be burdened by the real possibility of expensive head trauma care and resulting lifetime care.
Just the clean up of the remains is so much easier and cheaper to do if the head parts are still in a helmet.
“I must respectfully disagree,if you can prove that you indemnify the public from your bad choices and risk taking, then by all means ride with no helmet.”
Again, I think this is the wrong argument. The problem is that we have a nanny state that protects people from their potential and actual poor decisions at great cost to taxpayers.
This nanny-state is failing, so we get a win-win - more personal responsibility and less government.
I think most folks who choose to ride helmet-less would be more influenced by the potential for directly burdening loved ones should they survive an accident with severe disability than by a government telling them what’s good for them.