Mike McDaniel published this piece on car seats for children, Child car seat contraception, saying the "safety Nazis are annoying", and went on to show just how annoying they can be.
Remember, bureaucrats never stop creating regulations, nor do they stop expanding on existing regulations. An interesting aspect of this article is how this impacts our demographics, which I never thought of, and you may find it interesting. But that's not what I want to talk about. The comments are interesting, as there's always some who decry our advanced societies, how it's all about greed, etc.
I always hate these kind of “if it only saves one life” discussions. At the end of WWII the world’s population was around 2 billion people, and it took thousands of years to get there. In 80 years the world’s population surged to over 8 billion people. How bad can living in advanced societies be?
Accidents happen, and accidents have always happened, and people have always died as a result of accidents. Life is about risk versus benefits. Is that any consolation to those who’ve lost loved ones? No, nor has it been any consolation for anyone for thousands of years, but before the 19th century, there weren’t nearly as many benefits as there were risks.
People are living safer and longer than at any time in human history, so this idea we need to abandon all our advances, with all the negatives that go along with them, leaves us with the alternative living in caves, drinking untreated water, eating all natural foraged food, freezing in winter, sweltering in summer, living in filth and squalor to a ripe old age of 35.
The real safety risk is culture. The civilized world has now chosen “leaders” who allow wolves to run loose on our streets who are murdering, raping, robbing, and destroying the safety of the weak and helpless, and we’re worried about cars, car seats, seat belts, etc. We really need to get our priorities straight, and cutting government at all levels by 80% would be a good start.
We need far fewer “experts”.