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> Studies have shown that pedestrians should wear helmets when walking to increase their rate of survival

My instant reaction to that is negative, because it feels like treating the symptoms, not the cause.

Person A: people keep slipping and hitting their heads on this oily floor

Person B: studies have shown people should wear helmets if they want to increase their rate of survival

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To be fair wearing a bike helmet or a motorcycle helmet is "treating the symptoms" too. Most of those accidents result in injury because the bike was hit by a car.

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