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I think in general it's a mix between parents choice and society. I noticed you didn't want to use the word government there and instead used "society". More

• sesteel 8y ago
  Those bureaucrats are there to represent society, reduce conflict, and serve the greater good. Regulating is their role and somewhere up the chain of command is an elected official that oversees their power to do so. Sometimes the unelected bureaucrats are misguided, ignorant, corrupt, or otherwise misinterpret their role and/or power, but we have elections and city council meetings where issues are to be addressed; new policies can be enacted and complaints can be filed. It is not perfect but overall it tends to work.
• hrktb 8y ago
  Puting it as “government” makes it very political. I think that more often than not the people pushing these decisions follow an idea of what most people would agree with. For instance even if a regulator deeply believes eating babies is OK, they wouldn’t push a law in that direction, understanding nobody would back them up. They would still be biased and try to limit punishment on baby eating, but there would be enough other people countering them. In a way, if nobody resists or succesfuly rejects a proposal, I’d argue that proposal goes along what society accepts as valid, even if if asked in a poll a lot of people would disagree with it.