"Safety" has become an euphemism for "control". It's as if politicians speak a coded language: one of them says "we want safer cars" and others translate that t

"Safety" has become an euphemism for "control". It's as if politicians speak a coded language: one of them says "we want safer cars" and others translate that to "we want more control over cars". If someone says "to protect children we need these measures" others understand that it really means "we need these authoritarian measures".