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Some things, yes. Others... nah, thats the nanny state in full effect. Telling people that theres danger, and trying to take away personal freedoms arent the same thing. If someone wants to drink, smoke, eat fatty foods, let them. All you we should be doing is saying "yo, that shits bad for you.". And leave it up to personal choice. This is how it should be for drugs as well.
Seatbelts, why isnt this a personal choice? If you want to fly through the windshield at 70mph, you should be allowed to. Wearing helmets on a bike. If you want to end up with brain damage after a nasty fall, that too should be your choice.
We spend all our time trying to keep dumb people alive. And these are the people who dont rubber up. The more of them who reproduce and you get... well, take a look around...
Second-hand smoking is a thing. People without seatbelts turn into missiles in accidents or just lose control of vehicles and cause accidents, injuring others. All of these plus riders without helmets end up in hospital, costing everybody taxes and lost work days (covering for colleagues even if you don’t care what it costs businesses). You can’t just renege all responsibility for safety because you don’t exist in a vacuum.
Yes, mummy...