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Solution: stop saying "why didn't you do anything", righteously slap people who do.


No. Sometimes "you should have anticipated this would be a problem" is the appropriate response. I don't subscribe to the idea that government should be exclusively reactive to things.


The problem isn't that, it's governments being excessively reactive to things. In their view few people dying of random mishaps is always an excuse for more government. In my view everybody dies of something and faced with the threat of a 251g drone to the skull vs the horror of everyone pickled in aspic under maximum government insanity just to preserve me long enough enough into decrepitude that the medics get to torment me properly before death, bring on the drone. A society where people aren't free to die of ordinary mishaps is a sick society.


I mean, it's not free, but flying a drone under 55 pounds for personal use requires a $5 registration fee in the US. I'm pretty comfortable with that level of "pickling".




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