Why is the media/government obsessed with preventing death?

[cinna_man]

The world is filled with 6-7 billion people, and when one or two or three die (hell, even 100 or 1000), they want to call for sweeping lifestyle changes? Sweeping laws?

Is it more important that the government is absolutely perfect in its death prevention measures, or is it more important to allow people freedom to choose?

I think this a very serious question that will affect law and politics moving forward. This is sort of the essence of the surveillance/authoritarian state argument.

 

[cinna_man]

Imagine if the world was always like this. Take the coal mines that fueled the industrial revolution. A handful of coal miners die of the black lung, which is truly horrible, but what would happen next? Coal mining is regulated/outlawed, and the industrial revolution never takes off?

That's a poorly thought-out example, but I'm just saying...

 

[tmonster]

this thread.......:sweetjeezus:

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

why are you anti-regulation types so fukking stupid all the time?

The "free market" doesn't prevent lead paint from being ingested in your kids or radioactive paint being used on fine china or that when you get into a wreck yo don't end up flying through the windshield.

Not all regulation is bad, and the prevention of death enables a strong society to support the nation-state