After reading the article, “The Tyranny of the Nanny State,” I am much less inclined to believe that government regulation is necessary. Mostly on grounds that the government’s regulations are primarily driven by fear and that they do not see any positive repercussion that could come out of a situation in which child endangerment is involved. The article gave a plethora of examples pertaining to the overcautious acts of the government. One example that stood out was a situation where one mother was arrested for letting her kids ride their scooters alone in the cul-de-sac outside her home. This greatly surprised me because I see this going on all the time, it something I have done myself without a second thought from anyone else who witnessed it. This is a great example of the different levels of enforcement across different states. In this case and many other examples very similar to this I feel that the federal government has very far overreached. Government regulation, in this case, is not at all useful or helpful. Arresting parents based on fear that they might be endangering their kids is causing much more harm than good.
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November 2015
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