Get a Different Ride, Baljinder

Baljinder Badesha has been slapped with a $110.00 ticket for riding his motorcycle without a helmet and Ontario Court Justice James Blacklock just issued a 35-page ruling that Badesha was not facing religious discrimination when it happened.
I completely agree with Blacklock. The law requiring that riders be helmeted was not passed in order to discriminate against anyone. It was passed in order to safeguard the health and welfare of the riders. Period. When passed, the law affirmed that all riders were to be helmeted, without exception. Why should anyone be granted that exception now? Why should the rest of us be stuck with paying his hospital bills if he is injured in an accident while riding without a helmet? If Badesha's turban remaining uncovered is of such importance to him; more so than his own personal safety, then perhaps he could consider switching to some other form of transit. No-one would issue him with a ticket for failing to don a helmet before he climbs in behind the wheel of a car, or boards a TTC vehicle.
I would like to suggest that Badesha and others like him, who want to whine the poor-discriminated-against-me litany be allowed to ride their cycles without protective headgear as long as they agree beforehand to receiving only as much medical aid as they can personally afford to pay for, if they sustain head injury in an accident. The only problem is, this is Canada, and no matter how stupid Badesha was in refusing to take reasonable precautions for his own safety, he would not be denied treatment. That brings us back to the idea that he trade his motorcycle in for a different ride.
You want to come here to Canada and enjoy the benefits of living here, do you, Badesha? Well then, get over it, buddy. The law here requires you to wear a helmet, and it's not because you're a Sikh and anyone's discriminating against you, you moron. It's because the law is trying to look out for your safety, even if you won't.

1 Comments:
I'm in 100% agreement. Religion is a personal thing. Practising a religion comes with limitations. Some limit what you are allowed to eat; who you're allowed to marry; etc.; and in this case, it appears to forbid the riding of motorcycles.
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