It was bound to happen. Doctors are calling for a ban on pointy kitchen knifes.
This society has become all about risk avoidance. Everything has become measured in terms of risk. There is no such thing as a reasonable level of risk. It's almost as if people think that we can become immortal if we never do anything. If we live in a plastic bubble we live forever right?
Live under your bed sheets and never leave your house if you want... Because studies have proven that the place you are most likely to die in is your bed.
How about some bed control?
Tip o' the hat to Joseph Hertzlinger .
Having been involved at a political level in repealing the rediculous Liberal duck gun registry, I find I, and most right thinking people, have been unable to repeal the neurotic paranoia that allows the safety Nazis to continue to sell this tainted snake oil ( Banning property of the non criminal public) to the public.
ReplyDeleteIf banning things worked, we wouldn't have any criminal violence because that has been banned by law for over 500 years.
The only way I can explain this phenomina of the Canadian public getting less informed and more timorous every year is to offer these quotes:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." [H. L. Mencken]
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- C.S. Lewis, In Freedom