First off, it's a little hyperbolic and a straw man to compare risky behavior like trading bit coin with civil rights violations like slavery and women's suffra

First off, it's a little hyperbolic and a straw man to compare risky behavior like trading bit coin with civil rights violations like slavery and women's suffrage. If nothing else, risk minimization laws protect everybody equally. And although I personally agree that it shouldn't be the government's job to baby sit people, the country as a whole is currently going the opposite direction with things like the Affordable Care Act and Sarbanes Oxley.