Tamilnadu government has imposed a law for wearing helmets. Do you go with it???? If yes, then this is your blog. I don’t understand why should there be a rule so stringent for personal safety? I agree with the rule of banning ‘drink and drive’ because, if somebody drinks and drives, it is a potential danger for the other persons who are on the drinker’s way. I welcome it. But I don’t agree with helmets being banned as a law by the state govt.
If you are one of a person who argues with me “personal safety is government’s consideration” then tell me, why don’t this government ban ‘life spoiling drinks’? Why can’t this govt ban smoke? Why? Is that because both of these industries generate huge revenues for the government??? Wearing a helmet or not wearing it is a personal decision. Law protects a person to kill himself. Drinking or smoking will definitely fall in this category. Smoke or drinks’ kills slowly’, that is the difference.
If the govt is really considerate about personal safety, then the first decision it would make is to ban these, both as a law. I don’t mind a person who dies in accident without wearing helmet, I mind those who die because of ‘some other person is drunk’. As a Govt which governs a state, there are plenty of decisions to make regarding ‘personal safety’. I would like this Govt to think about whether this decision is ‘ for the people’ or the people who is into manufacturing helmets. I die because of something is different from he dies because of me. That is the difference between ‘kill and suicide’. Drinks or smoke, fall in both of these categories.
I welcome, if govt creates a law like ‘insurance is a must for both the driver and the commuter behind’. But I totally disagree with a law which compels commuters to wear a helmet. I am not recommending not to wear helmets, but am thinking of better ways to implement ‘personal safety’ Am I making sense??
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