Sikh ok without safety helmet?

[Leo613]

How can the government allow Sikhs to ride a scooter without helmet and ignore basic health and safety precautions and put them at high risk of danger?

 

[Wirey]

The same way they can allow idiots who think a magic wizard will heal diseases if you pray hard enough have children. If your version of the Invisible Magic Cloud Man wants you dead in an accident, so do the rest of us.

 

[David1967]

I don't know. Do you know the reason given?

 

[Smart_Guy]

Let's see... one is free to risk their own safety as long as it does not hurt the safety of bystanders?

Dunno really. But anyway, laws are laws. If the law has a clause for it, then so be it. It would be part of law too, right? It also does not hurt the bystanders, so I guess it's okay.

Or maybe turbans protect the head well enough to replace helmets?

 

[Leo613]

Let's see... one is free to risk their own safety as long as it does not hurt the safety of bystanders?

Dunno really. But anyway, laws are laws. If the law has a clause for it, then so be it. It would be part of law too, right? It also does not hurt the bystanders, so I guess it's okay.

Or maybe turbans protect the head well enough to replace helmets?

If so no one needs to wear helmet cause its for themselves?

 

[Aupmanyav]

Or maybe turbans protect the head well enough to replace helmets?

They don't. Same with allowing women not to wear helmets. This is known as appeasement. It happens very frequently in India, a compulsion of democracy and votes. Allowing reservations (affirmative action) to the Jats, Gujars, Ahirs, Meenas, Nagas, etc. irrespective of their financial status; or allowing triple talaq, four marriages, and no alimony liability for Muslims. The question whether it is right or wrong is never considered.

 

[Jedster]

How can the government allow Sikhs to ride a scooter without helmet and ignore basic health and safety precautions and put them at high risk of danger?

They obviously don't need to wear a helmet:

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[Smart_Guy]

If so no one needs to wear helmet cause its for themselves?

Nope. As I implied in my last post's second line, there could be Sikh religious specific law for it. I think such exceptions do make sense as long as it only concerns the safety of the Sikh who chooses to.

 

[Smart_Guy]

They don't. Same with allowing women not to wear helmets. This is known as appeasement. It happens very frequently in India, a compulsion of democracy and votes. Allowing reservations (affirmative action) to the Jats, Gujars, Ahirs, Meenas, Nagas, etc. irrespective of their financial status; or allowing triple talaq, four marriages, and no alimony liability for Muslims. The question whether it is right or wrong is never considered.

Sorry, I meant that last line as a joke. Turns out to be a bad one, I guess.

 

[Aupmanyav]

No, it is still a joke on Indian democracy. The joke is on us. However, Sikh aviators or soldiers do wear helmets. In that case they do not wear a turban but its smaller version, Patka. That saves them their religious sensibilities. One of our most popular sikh personalities, Harbhajan Singh, the cricketer wearing a patka, English cricketer, Monty Panesar wearing a patka,

 

[Papoon]

Nope. As I implied in my last post's second line, there could be Sikh religious specific law for it. I think such exceptions do make sense as long as it only concerns the safety of the Sikh who chooses to.

Which of course it doesn't. A Sikh badly injured as a result of not wearing a helmet will require emergency medical treatment, tying up doctors and surgeons who could be looking after someone else. For example.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Which of course it doesn't. A Sikh badly injured as a result of not wearing a helmet will require emergency medical treatment, tying up doctors and surgeons who could be looking after someone else. For example.

Touche!

Now, tell that to the government

 

[GURSIKH]

How can the government allow Sikhs to ride a scooter without helmet and ignore basic health and safety precautions and put them at high risk of danger?

The exemption of helmets for Sikhs might be due to Sir Winston Churchill s following speech in British Parliament and Mr Aupmany it has nothing to do with appeasement for Sikh votes

"....British people are highly indebted and obliged to Sikhs for a long time. I know that within this century we needed their help twice and they did help us very well. As a result of their timely help, we are today able to live with honour, dignity, and independence. In the war, they fought and died for us, wearing the turbans. At that time we were not adamant that they should wear safety helmets because we knew that they are not going to wear them anyways and we would be deprived of their help. At that time due to our miserable and poor situation, we did not force it on them to wear safety helmets, why should we force it now? Rather, we should now respect their traditions and by granting this legitimate concession, win their applaud."

 

[Ralph Murphy]

They will either Sikh or swim.......he he.....

 

[Aquitaine]

Nope. As I implied in my last post's second line, there could be Sikh religious specific law for it. I think such exceptions do make sense as long as it only concerns the safety of the Sikh who chooses to.

But why not? If the government is going to create exemptions based on lifestyle choices (religion), why not create the same exemption for "personal preference"?

 

[Aquitaine]

They will either Sikh or swim.......he he.....

Sikh joke bro!

 

[Shad]

How can the government allow Sikhs to ride a scooter without helmet and ignore basic health and safety precautions and put them at high risk of danger?

Governments tend to treat their population as functional adults until shown otherwise. A flawed axiom.

 

[Smart_Guy]

But why not? If the government is going to create exemptions based on lifestyle choices (religion), why not create the same exemption for "personal preference"?

Maybe there are some already?

Not sure about other countries, but where I live, fastening seat built while driving is enforced, but if the driver has a surgery in his stomach, for example, and does not fasten it, the officer lets them take responsibility and pass without a ticket and if proof is given. This is one exception by the law.

 

[Valjean]

Is there anything in the Guru Granth Sahib that prohibits fiberglass or thermoplastic turbans, or styrofoam turban liners?
Could cotton just be wound around a normal helmet?

 

[Aquitaine]

Maybe there are some already?

Not sure about other countries, but where I live, fastening seat built while driving is enforced, but if the driver has a surgery in his stomach, for example, and does not fasten it, the officer lets them take responsibility and pass without a ticket and if proof is given. This is one exception by the law.

True.
I can understand medical exemptions, just not religious ones.