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Just him then, because I know both my instinctive and well thought through risk compensations will both be wrong; I just don't know in which direction.
I don't think helmets are bad, I think compulsion is bad. I don't think risk compensation is bad any more than I think surprise or delight are bad; they are just things which fall out of natural psychology, so they are morally neutral. I do know that risk compensation is nearly always done wrong, but in both directions, so the jury is out on whether the effect of risk compensation is worse than the effect would be if it were eliminated from human psychology.