Not everyone is a well adjusted fully mature individual though. As an extreme example, imagine a child shooting a classmate without understanding what death act

Not everyone is a well adjusted fully mature individual though. As an extreme example, imagine a child shooting a classmate without understanding what death actually is. From the child's perspective, the "bad" that that classmate done may have been the worst thing he or she has ever experienced, having no other experience to calibrate. Drug use similarly requires an established life, otherwise it consumes the life in a cycle of addiction. Simple curiosity can lead down a one way path. Ideally parents will be responsible for the maturity of a child but that is far from the case. Preventing people from falling through a floor is what society is supposed to do. Families that can insulate themselves can afford to not care about most aspects of society which are basically services for the "unwashed masses". In fact, these floors are often limiting to these families as the presence of a floor also correspondingly creates a ceiling. To let the majority of society suffer from the consequences of "stupid actions" can only be said from a position of privilege. In an increasingly complex world with real one way switch reoercussions, society and culture has to be programmed to prevent people from falling through the cracks. Chinese kids end up fairly well off for example because theie culture prizes education. The kids hate it growing up but it prevents them from falling through the "disdain for education" crack. The ceiling here is that you end up not having to think for yourself a lot and may never truly find what you really enjoy. Creating a society is often about creating floors for safety while leaving enough leeway so that ceilings can be navigated. Often though this purpose is lost as the US has done with cannabis. The whole system literally pushes people downwards and never lets them rise.