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Dec 24 11 4:01 PM
AppyButt wrote:Everything you have talked about here is a personal choice. You choose to take responsibility or not. You choose to care or not. You choose to patronize clinicians and trainers who practice what you view to be right. You choose to follow show rules and wear a helmet. You choose to set your own rules that all who ride your horses wear helmets. Or whatever it is that you have decided. You weigh the risks and make a decision. Or you don't weigh the risks and blunder on ahead anyway. Those are also choices. People who do the former tend to make choices that improve their safety. People who do the latter will usually hurt themselves in some other way, helmet or not. Personally I don't like others to tell me what I can and cannot do on my own time and with my own head. I choose to wear a helmet because I don't like the idea of going splat on the gravel road. If others choose not to, I can't make them, and I wouldn't really want to anyway. Mandating personal responsibility is generally self-defeating. Responsibility is a choice, and one that everyone has to make for themselves. Forcing people into it doesn't make them more responsible, it just adds something else to the list of things they "have to do". A list of things they will happily ignore at the first opportunity.
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