Many things and technologies we use can pose a risk. Some like petrol powered transport are extremely dangerous if misused or damaged.
I remember once a long time ago on a motorway journey with my family, stopping in a service area and noticing a very strong smell of petrol from the jag that was parked next to my car. An older chap was fiddling about in the boot and because of the smell of petrol I went to have a chat with him. His very disabled and immobile wife was sitting in the car and the boot had petrol swilling about on the floor. The fuel hose came up through the floor of the boot and was perforated where it joined onto a spigot from the tank and fuel pump on its way to the engine. I sorted it it out for him, cleaned up the petrol on the boot floor, and helped him stop his car becoming a fie bomb and wife cremation machine.
Many things we use daily could pose grave risks to the stupid and unwary. The point is we learn how to use them properly. That is the way things have operated nearly all of my life, and I think it is a big mistake to restrict by law, everything that could possibly cause harm if abused by an idiot so that sensible people have a hard time getting around the permission to do ordinary things. We have already gone much too far down the control and prohibition route of late in my opinion. Idiots will kill themselves. Sensible people won't. It is harmful to interfere with natural selection. This is what made the species so successful.
I remember once a long time ago on a motorway journey with my family, stopping in a service area and noticing a very strong smell of petrol from the jag that was parked next to my car. An older chap was fiddling about in the boot and because of the smell of petrol I went to have a chat with him. His very disabled and immobile wife was sitting in the car and the boot had petrol swilling about on the floor. The fuel hose came up through the floor of the boot and was perforated where it joined onto a spigot from the tank and fuel pump on its way to the engine. I sorted it it out for him, cleaned up the petrol on the boot floor, and helped him stop his car becoming a fie bomb and wife cremation machine.
Many things we use daily could pose grave risks to the stupid and unwary. The point is we learn how to use them properly. That is the way things have operated nearly all of my life, and I think it is a big mistake to restrict by law, everything that could possibly cause harm if abused by an idiot so that sensible people have a hard time getting around the permission to do ordinary things. We have already gone much too far down the control and prohibition route of late in my opinion. Idiots will kill themselves. Sensible people won't. It is harmful to interfere with natural selection. This is what made the species so successful.
