The repliers to this were right. Just because something cost others doesn't mean we should micromanage every aspect of our lives.
I liked the Long John's examples. Another--suppose you install a ceiling fan in your living room, but fall and break your arm. The reason you fell? You were using a 5 gallon bucket turned upside down to stand on, instead of an OSHA-approved stepladder.
Are you now going to make it OK for random inspections by the OSHA-squad or whatever to poke their noses in my living room and make sure I'm not doing this, or even make us accept permanently-installed spy cameras in our house wired up to such an organization--because it costs all of us when some moron installs a ceiling fan (or hangs a picture, stacks his dishes etc) without using an OSHA-approved stepladder?
I say to the contrary--I am willing for us as a society to pay higher costs, if it means it fosters a soceity where we keep our noses out of other people's business, instead of busy-bodying ourselves into every aspect of every person's life under every conceivable angle.
How to really avoid an accidentThe other day I was coming home from work, doing 55MPH on the frontage road. I saw a car coming down the side street that connects to the...
I am not willing to sell my freedom and buttume nosiness just to save a few bucks. Sorry.
LRH
