> Civilized society does control your diet, through food regulation. No they don't. I can grow my own food and it is perfectly legal and loads of people do exa

> Civilized society does control your diet, through food regulation. No they don't. I can grow my own food and it is perfectly legal and loads of people do exactly that. > you'll have to go a bit out of your way to find sex and violence. Hardly. It's all over the internet. Even teens easily find it. > Alcohol is indeed a restricted substance Not for adults though, which is what we are talking about here, right? > any injury-prone sports have been discontinued or modified to be safer Only commercially. I can engage in the vast majority of the more dangerous version of those sports in my own free time any time I want. Play American football without helmets in my own backyard? Who is going to stop me? So no, none of the things you mentioned are controlled to the point of being illegal. And even in rare cases where they are illegal (buying raw milk for example), no one gets thrown in jail for five years for doing it, and people do continue to do it and take those risks, and society does continue to pay when things go wrong. > Obviously, you must balance the harm of the intervention itself with the harm that the intervention is trying to mitigate. Who decides that? Because I find it difficult to put a measure on the cost of removing so many freedoms trying to make life risk free. It's not a society I would want to live in. I will temper that by saying I'm fully in favor of requiring people to wear masks in public. But only because it's a public emergency and in unusual circumstances I'm flexible. But what you are suggesting is long term and permanent policy.