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You're right, but Californians embrace the Nanny State, unfortunately. It's sad.
by eplanit 6y ago
You're right, but Californians embrace the Nanny State, unfortunately. It's sad.
- birken 6y agoProp 65 was passed in 1986. Most Californians today didn't vote on it. So you really don't know what current Californians do or do not embrace.
- gruez 6y agoIs any sort of government intervention considered "nanny state"? Prop65 is as not-nannystate as you can get, considering it doesn't try to ban the products or even tax them.
- tshaddox 6y ago> Is any sort of government intervention considered "nanny state"? Yes, generally the term is only used by people mocking any suggestion that the government should regulate anything. Mask requirements during a pandemic, laws against drunk driving, laws about how restaurants need to handle raw meat, etc.
- ooobit2 6y ago... laws that protect minors as young as 14 from being coerced into sexual relationships with adults up to age 23... laws that limit corporate access to public water sources when the state is in perpetual drought... Oops. Those suggestions went right out the window. And into one of those 90% of fires that are man-made. Maybe someone will come by with a 24-pack of plastic water bottles we can dump on the fire, since pulling from the hose will put us over our government-mandated per-person use restrictions and cost us hundreds in fines... or even jail time!
- dang 6y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar with unsubstantive comments. That has bad effects, whichever direction your views point in. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html