Remember when cars didn't even come with seatbelts and you could ride from here to eternity in the back of your parents pickup truck and nobody cared?
Now those are punishable offenses.
I remember doing some like that (riding in the back of a pick up with out seat belts)
It's the biggest problem I have with Liberals. They want to protect everyone from themselves.
It's totally contradictory to the very definition of Liberal (More Open/More Free) and completely idiotic. Having government trying to protect people (from themselves, most of the time) does not guarantee more safety. Most of the time its because the government needs a new source of revenue, because the politicians have an idiotic vision that they want to pursue.
Funny how it's always with some one else's money...
There's a reason why I support Capitalism. It's because under a pure Capitalistic System (instead of a Mixed Economy, or a Socialist/Statist/Fascist System) the only way people could push their vision would be to sell people on it. There would be no way for uninterested people to be forced to join in.
A Capitalism Society would have no problem with the existence of a Socialist Community, but a Socialist Society/Government can not or will not permit the existence of a Capitalist Community.