Where would any of us be without squids really? We would have never broken the sound barrier, never gone to the moon, never learned to fly in airplanes, invented the car or the motorcycle! I guess there is a place for squids BUT not when it endangers innocent people in the process. I won't even go into what we used to do with our BMX bikes!
I once went to bed without brushing my teeth! I didn't get my first car until I was 28...first motorcycle at 46. So, I was fairly mature when I was "mobile." I DID do some interesting Timothy Leary impersonations on my bicycle...