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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Bad example, seatbelts are a health and safety issue.
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So is being over weight, drinking more than a few ounces of wine, any amount of hard liquor, changing the radio station (except by voice command), talking to a passenger, climbing ladders, walking down stairs. And a great many other things.
Lets talk of children -
children drowning in buckets or
Preventing Child Drownings.
"Each year, nationwide, about 300 children under 5 years old drown in swimming pools, usually a pool owned by their family. In addition, more than
2,000 children in that age group are treated in hospital emergency rooms for submersion injuries."
And even if you remove or outlaw all common possibilities, will that protect everyone? Not really.
"
7-Year-Old Boy Critical After Being Found Hanging From Clothing Hook at School"
Coat hooks are also commonly used by children to commit suicide.
We can never do enough to protect everybody. We can only do the best we can. But it will never be enough.
Back to the point. It looks like the governments will keep trying to nail down every possibility on copyright laws.
The music industry removed DRM from music and I started spending money.
But if they force DRM on all ebooks I'll just give away my Sony and stop buying ebooks.