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Originally Posted by USAFNoDak
This ties in nicely with how the "do gooders" in power are more dangerous than a tyrant. Tyrants eventually lose interest in oppressing their subjects. However, do gooders in power never rest in their desires to control our lives as they do so with "good intentions".
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I don't recall too many tyrants losing interest in oppressing their people. That's a very strange saying.
Do-gooders can be problematic in their own right, but I'm pretty confident that tyrants don't quit being tyrants.
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The problem with do-gooders is that there's always another problem that needs to be fixed. They never realize that you eventually get far enough down the list that a "problem" is really just a matter of freak accidents and uncontrollable circumstances.
There's always more to fix.
The recent requirement (I think it's a NY thing) that the inlet pumps on pools have protective screens on them to keep kids from getting their arms stuck and drowning is a good example. Is it tragic when it happens? Yes, it is but it's a rare, rare event and it's not really "new".
One must wonder, why is it suddenly an issue? Because the do-gooders finally made it that far down the list. They made it through all the stuff that kills 10,000 kids a year (and needed to be fixed) and all the other "real" problems and now they're down on the things that kill like 3 people a decade. Freak accident stuff.
But, their "do-goodery" knows no bounds and the rest of us are uncaring animals for daring to question if we really need to make a law that every pool inlet pipe has a protective screen.
Then, there's some other issue below pool screens, that even they haven't thought of yet because the pool screens got their attention.
It never ends.