Originally Posted by
chasm54
Almost precisely the obverse of my own position. I don't care if you wear a helmet. What I do care about is being told I'm an idiot for not wearing one, usually by people who are utterly clueless about, and grossly overestimate, both the risks and the potential benefits.
Heres another summary of the same observation:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience". - - C. S. Lewis
Welcome, ye, the Nanny State.