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Even though I wear seat belts and think everyone should as a rational choice for themselves, I would rather not have the patronizing surveillance state controll
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
Even though I wear seat belts and think everyone should as a rational choice for themselves, I would rather not have the patronizing surveillance state controlling everything about me like this. It just feels like safetyism gone wild.
If I see a government wasting money on this, the first thing I would think is that they have too much tax revenue and too much power. The next thing on my mind, would be what this kind of thing is normalizing and where they’ll go next in terms of surveillance and intrusion into my life.
- beej71 2y agoI somewhat agree with you on the surveillance state. When I first saw the headline, I immediately thought that it must be about the UK. That said, toddlers aren't old enough to demand a seatbelt or to know about physics or anything. I find this to be as dangerous as dangling them out a second-floor window. I mean, it's probably going to be okay, but why are you doing that? So in my mind, saying this is safetyism gone wild might be an overstatement in this case.