The rest of the gear is to reduce injury. You won’t die without it, but you will hurt. Maybe a lot.

With high speeds and asphalt humans easily become meat crayons

I think his reasoning was to see how far the sign holding folks would go for money, and they apparently didn’t really have any limits. Should he have done and shown it on youtube is the thing he can be criticized for

On top of that many are also incapable of defending themselves. Hard to fight for your rights when you aren’t even able to

All words are made-up, that’s how they work! /j

One punch man is a parody in it’s core though, I don’t know why people seem to take it so seriously. Even Tatsumaki can be read as making fun of the usual shounen loli character tropes, looking like how she does and being about thirty