Excuse a brief bit of hyperbole, but what’s your stance on gun control? How do you feel about seatbelt and helmet laws? All of those things and more exist for

Excuse a brief bit of hyperbole, but what’s your stance on gun control? How do you feel about seatbelt and helmet laws? All of those things and more exist for the protection of the users and/or general public - but many people hold the attitude that it should be up to the user to do or not so it right. We have a history of banning or socially stigmatizing dangerous products and practices - see 3 wheel ATVs and lawn darts, for easy examples. Similarly, and less extreme, standards and best practices exist exactly because it’s often pragmatically dangerous to expect the end user of a product to be an expert enough to avoid hidden or infrequent but high risk dangers, much less very common and high risk dangers. (See examples everywhere from medicine to aviation or the national elictrical code). Making it easier to shoot yourself in the foot isn’t a virtue on its own...