best helmet...

[H-man]

Hey.... Isn't that what Don was saying under his helmet as K3 want by? ;D

[license2ill]

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Any testimonies about the X-Lite?

It's Italian. Remember Moussolini?
 ;D

[mike_rbm]

After reading this thread over the last week and looking at everyones attached links and using google to get my own info all I can say is this. Yikes! Way too many points of view and opinions!     ???    ;D    From what I have seen, read, heard and experienced buy an Arai or a Shoei. I'm not saying the other makers are bad but these two seem to have the most positive reviews overall. Me spending my money again? Arai!  ;D

[Dawn]

One ping...one ping only...

LOL!!!

I see you watched the same movie I did (third time now).  

Dawn  

<  Sean Connery was the sexiest in that movie IMO >   ;D

[brian213]

Apparently, now Miguel likes the same helmet I use.  Or they are just paying him to like it. ::)

-Brian

[license2ill]

Apparently, now Miguel likes the same helmet I use.  Or they are just paying him to like it. ::)

-Brian

I don't know about the helmet itself, but he seems tike the fact they are paying him to wear it.

[H-man]

It's Italian. Remember Moussolini? ;D

Yeah....  And I also remember Tojo and the Emperor Hirohito.  What exactly is your point ???  Are you suggesting that it's only justifiable to direct one's displeasure at a specific individual and not a company, government or the instruments that extend a disagreeable policy?

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Suomy.  Donny, the compitetion rep for Suomy, has been helping get my novel into the hands of people who might do it some good.  Love the product, love the protection, love the people.  Suomy.

[license2ill]

Yeah....  And I also remember Tojo and the Emperor Hirohito.  What exactly is your point ???  Are you suggesting that it's only justifiable to direct one's displeasure at a specific individual and not a company, government or the instruments that extend a disagreeable policy?

My point is that if you look back, or even presently, you will eventually be able to find many issues of disagreement with just about any country or culture anywhere. I don't buy German products because they slaughtered Jews, I don't buy Japanese produsts because they bombed Pearl Harbor and dumped Toyota Camrys over here, I won't buy Chinese goods because they're communists, I won't buy Pakistani goods because they harbor terrorists, etc, etc. Then you find out other cultures feel the same way about you. Woops.

[MJFRacing]

Again, an Arai helmet saved my life!

Arai -

Arai  -



 

A R A I  ! ! !    :)   :)   :)  

[KBOlsen]

Is it April yet?  You guys are really starting to worry me.

[H-man]

My point is that if you look back, or even presently, you will eventually be able to find many issues of disagreement with just about any country or culture anywhere. I don't buy German products because they slaughtered Jews, I don't buy Japanese produsts because they bombed Pearl Harbor and dumped Toyota Camrys over here, I won't buy Chinese goods because they're communists, I won't buy Pakistani goods because they harbor terrorists, etc, etc. Then you find out other cultures feel the same way about you. Woops.

I've been away for a bit.  I'll try to keep my response relatively light, friendly and brief.  This is an interesting topic for a separate thread.  Maybe something titled "Metaethics & Epistemology".  That ought to either draw the curious or chase away the riff raff ;)

The premise that I have drawn from your statement is that moral/ethical lines can never be drawn out of concern that others may have their own ethical/moral lines that may be used against you (not you literally).  I reject that idea.  Under the law of identity, there are absolutes.  While not everything is black and white, there are some areas of clear right and wrong, good and bad.  Ethically speaking that is.

Ethical/moral beliefs have to stand on their own.  The decision to follow/act on one's ethical/moral beliefs should (hopefully) not be based on a fear of retribution.  When that is the case, that person has no true moral compass.  That person is behaving illogically because he/she is subordinating a lower value for a higher value.  I am here presuming the ethical/moral belief to have the higher value because it is an ethical/moral belief.  Otherwise, it's just another fact or opinion in one's mind.

While I joke around in my recent disdain for the French and the choice to boycott their products (Michelin & BF Goodrich tires; Hennessy cognac; Maybelline & L'Oreal cosmetics; Nissan automobiles; Dannon yogurt, blah, blah, blah), it is fair and proper to use the instruments that give support to a government or a policy to express opposition to that government or policy.  Hence the boycott of businesses that conducted business in South Africa (in the past) or the boycotting of Japanese companies because of the Japanese government's policy on whaling.