I got a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt today. Which makes me think, there seem to be three types of laws.

1. Direct laws against doing something (murder, rape etc).
2. Laws to protect people from themselves. Seat belts, drugs etc
3. Laws that stop people from doing things that could make them do something that's already illegal under type 1 - public drinking, guns etc

I say it's encumbent upon people to act responsibility, and if they don't they'll either hurt themselves or break an already existing law which deals with that act. I say scrap everything that falls into category 2 or 3 - I'm sick of being treated like a child. Because one moron lights a firework in his face fireworks are banned - how about assuming most people will act responsibly, and that those who don't deserve the consequences of their retardation? Natural selection seems to have done a pretty good job thus far.

It's getting to the point where living in the west, particularly the US and UK, the two places I've lived about half my life equally, government has become a parent.