I think the “nanny state” concept is poorly calibrated. If you allow entities to profit from causing harm, or conveniently shift the cost of negative externalit

I think the “nanny state” concept is poorly calibrated. If you allow entities to profit from causing harm, or conveniently shift the cost of negative externalities onto other people, day to day life will eventually become so adversarial that it is unliveable. This seems to be happening already, as we are inundated with scam texts, emails and phone calls; children are under siege from social media, the fast food industry, Juul; whole regions are routed by the opioid crisis; tobacco related diseases are still one of the top causes of death; the fossil fuel industry keeps edging us closer to varying degrees of annihilation.