Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In...
by mirchibajji on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:01AM
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Going back to the context of the thread: Not every risk has to be codified into the law, or enforced by the government. Should we make it illegal to prance around with a metal rod in their own backyard, just in case? Making a risk illegal does not magically improve safety, and there is a non-zero probability of the "enforcement" making things worse.
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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In...
by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:59AM
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I am with you and, in a sense, you are preaching to the choir. If system setup was up to me, maybe with few notable exceptions, all new laws would require a sunset provision to force bad laws out of existence. I am certainly not arguing that just making things illegal improves safety ( and even when it does, I am not stoked about it ).