For what it's worth, I don't think some of your examples are fully on point. In many countries, gambling is heavily regulated. Not everybody can gamble, not ev

For what it's worth, I don't think some of your examples are fully on point. In many countries, gambling is heavily regulated. Not everybody can gamble, not everybody can offer gambling services, and there are rules and disclaimers on tickets/entries/whatever. Similarly, yes you can ski anywhere, but some companies included waivers and disclaimers if e.g. you want to use their lifts or slopes or services. Point is, even the best examples you came up with aren't actually a clear-cut case of "you can do whatever you want, it's on you, with no regulations or warning or protections". At their best, regulations are a collective "We tried this, it sucked/harmed people, ouchie, let's not do it again". They ARE a "Let's learn the hard way" but on a societal scale. It is, to me, insane to take an unpragmatic, extreme, libertarian way of "everybody should learn from their own mistakes only". (at their worst, of course, regulations are oppressive, ridiculous, overly complicated, serve limited or counter purpose, ambiguous, overbearing, and growing ad infinitum:)