This morning I saw a bicyclist get pulled over by a well-paid public servant because he (the bicyclist) wasn’t wearing a helmet.

I had to wonder how some laws get passed in the first place.

If the government’s concern was really for your safety,
rather than for the lagging sales of bicycle helmets,
they would require you to take a course
wherein, just like karate,
the first thing you are taught is how to fall properly.