If I rode a motorcycle (which I wouldn't, on a bet) I'd wear a helmet, but deeply resent being forced to do so on a bicycle. Given how many fiercely independent bikers I've known I think my resentment of helmet laws only a pale shadow of theirs. If people cycling without a helmet really piss you off I offer the same advice I give people who get really pissed off at women killing fetuses because they don't want to bear a child: Don't let them tell you what to do with your own body, and grant them the same courtesy.

Maybe he would've driven a car without seatbelts; probably, if it were legal. I certainly would, and as a backseat passenger strongly preferred it in the days when my "safety belt" did little more than make me likely to be trapped in a burning vehicle or have my organs crushed or sliced when thrown against a lap belt. My body, my life, my choice; it's called "freedom". The trouble with people applauding govenment dictates on what people do or don't do with their own bodies is that they've forgotten there's no guarantee said government will always issue dictates of which they approve. Civilized governments don't allow incidental majorities to tell minorities what they must believe to save their souls or do to save their babies so it seems a little bizarre when they let majorities tell minorities what they must do to save their lives. In a country that just recently celebrated a government founded on majority rule IN CONJUNCTION WITH minority rights it's also rather hypocritical.