Sounds like you're pretty emotionally invested in this argument, so this may be flame-bait, though it's not intended to be. You were 16 when the laws were enac

Sounds like you're pretty emotionally invested in this argument, so this may be flame-bait, though it's not intended to be. You were 16 when the laws were enacted. Of course you'd mock them. It even clearly shaped you as an adult: you're still angry about what you see as nanny-statism. Still, it's just your natural growth as a person. As a child you're protected from crassness, then in your adolescence you revel in it, then you have children and shun it, then once your kids are too old for you to control what they see you throw your hands up at it and declare the world lost to corruption. At any rate, there is a point in life where you personally need to protect someone else and your ability to do that in the "information age" is harder than it has ever been. So a silly sticker that makes teenagers scoff and parents happy fills every cup to the brim.