ALT-5 Motorcyclists should always Wear Helmets – Agree
"BASHED BRAINS"
A few million years ago the human species had a very different lifestyle than they do today. Basically hunter-gatherers, they roamed around their respective territories in search of food and shelter and kept within packs. They had various natural threats, mostly predators, and they were really at the mercy of the elements. Having thicker skin than you and I, they were more suited to harsher conditions, however they still sustained head-injuries on a regular basis.
Their environment was as fast as they could run or fall. Because they rarely fell from great heights, the fastest speed they could get their bodies traveling at was around 30 or 40 mph, and that was either off a cliff or being flung in terror by a mastodon. Even though they were mentally superior to the animal kingdom, they had yet to develop various technological advances which you or I take for granted, such as: mailboxes, parked cars, cars traveling in the other direction, wire fences, curbs, telephone poles, telephone boxes, people crossing the street, traffic lights, trucks and of course brick walls.
Their skulls were slightly thicker than our own, but even so would break if smashed upon hard objects at their maximum possible speed (30 or 40 mph). Most of the time though, the breaking of skulls was intentional by another of their tribe.
Anonymous surveys done on these tribes, revealed that they were on the brink of inventing some skull-saving device. Initially this had been constructed of rocks but was found just as dangerous as the rocks that they were hitting their heads on. If not for a world-wide cataclysm involving a lot of lava, it is believed that what the cavemen would have developed at that time would have been not too dissimilar to the modern-day motorcycle helmet.
If you were to ask a caveman from that era - if you could translate their language - I think that they might actually say, "Chunk-break-FOOT!" but if you could speed up their minds as well so that they were as smart as you or I then they would probably say,
"It seems to me that the greatest tragedy of the modern-day commuter is their lack of neglect for their own domes. When I was in the caves, my biggest concerns (besides that she-devil woman of mine) were for the safety of my cranium which, at a maximum velocity of 30 or 40 mph, was in grave danger of becoming fractured beyond repair. It is my deepest wish that some device be fashioned to encapsulate the skull so as to protect it for future years when one might as an old man reflect back on the stupidity of his youth without having died for it. My next deepest concern is that we have no scones in my time."
So if that's what a caveman thinks, what do you think?
