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Two things that have happened to me in the last few months:
1) Foot retention failure
2) Chain snap
On both occasions my front brake saved me and/or the pedestrian who I was slowing for from injury of some sort.
If you have a front brake, you don't have to use it unless there is an emergency and I'm not aware of anybody on this forum who is good enough to give a shit about a few extra ounces of weight from a brake. Unless of course brakeless riders just like to pretend to be charlie big potatoes because its rock'ard to ride without brakes innit.
I'm sure there is a thread for this sort of shite.