Why do we need those yellow 'wet floor' signs? Sure, almost slipped over in the office foyer a few weeks back, but my soles are a bit worn
In your workplace where your boss is in the frame if they don't provide a safe workplace. Those yellow signs are precisely about making you responsible for your safety. You have been warned if you break your neck because of your worn soles that's your problem. =NOT nanny state.
Why do we need clear, total pricing? After all I can add up ticket price + fuel surcharge + cc fee + trolley dolly moisturiser/pantyhose tax clawback charge and doing it in my head wards off Alzheimers
To stop dodgy A-holes ripping people off. The unscrupulous are everywhere and they have no problem cheating people to rip them off.
A safety risk assessment for my local street party? My bbq is clean - heats burns all the nasties away and a bucket is on-hand to manage fire risk
Indeed, it's that easy that you've wasted more time whinging about it than the time it would take to do the assessment.
Hats and sunscreen for kids: pfffft, never in my day, sure got the odd sunspot so what?
My family members got melanoma and died. pffft indeed.
Drinking stubbies at the public pool - I'm not clumsy and won't drop one so what's the big deal?
But other people are and do. What is your reaction when you slice open your foot on the glass someone else dropped?
Stand Your Ground laws ...whoops, sorry got a little mixed up with New Hampshire. Live Free or Die! (your choice BTW but GTF off my lawn)
Priority Boarding at Qantas. Don't need a policy, don't want a policy. As a NB, I can be trusted to use it responsibly.
WT-actual-F? Sorry buddy the footpath is not your lawn. Plenty of NB's who simply can't be trusted. If you can be trusted, good on you. Still, in that case, the policy doesn't affect you.
This kind of "Nanny state" Governance is not limited to entertainment. Every aspect of our lives is becoming someone else's responsibility.
Where once "Caveat Emptor" was the first thing you considered when buying products or services, today there is a swathe of regulation, compliance and auditing.
It won't be long before even the simple and mundane will require a detailed set of instructions, (in writing), warranties providing protection for the most idiotic of actions, all in the name of "Consumerism".
I could go on about the restrictions now on how we do everything from child rearing to buying life insurance, but I suspect you all know what I mean.
Oh great, lets go back to rip off the customer. Having to be able to demonstrate that a product is fit of purpose and does meet standards actually puts the responsibility onto the people who are responsible for that stuff. If we take a hypothetical charger for a computer. If that charger is found to have a faulty design such that it might catch on fire or shock the user of the computer. Is the Emptor responsible for the faulty design? No, IMO. So why should the seller transfer responsibility to the Emptor?
Most of that though is evidence of the "Bureaucratic State" rather than the Nanny state.The bureaucracy must justify their existence by continually putting out mission statements,regulations,policies and such like no matter how that impacts on the efficient running of their fiefdom.Health is a good/bad example.
I'm pretty sure the bureaucrats in the Prime Minister's office didn't want to be enforcing state government WHS legislation. Yet that was the demand placed on them.
What is actually happening is that bureaucracy is being cut back significantly. That's why we have regulations that specify performance standards, for things like X-ray machines. The bureaucracy no longer tests those things, those bureaucrats are long gone. So the owner of the X-ray is now responsible for making sure that don't over expose people to radiation. Seems perfectly reasonable for the person making money from the machine to take responsibility for that machine.
I can loan you a textbook on changes to the public service over the last 50 years if you like.
Here's another one on the bureaucracy. 14 years ago, as a bureaucrat, I used to have to assess the radiation dose to people participating in medical research, make a recommendation to a quango via my boss about whether the exposure was acceptable and hence the research could proceed. It was tedious stuff and could take months to get that final approval.
The evil bureaucrats have since brung in regulations that put the assessment requirement onto the community, completely free of bureaucracy. Now those bureaucrats are out of a job, the bureaucracy has been slashed. I'm now in "industry" turning out tedious radiation dose assessments according to the new regulations in weeks.