Subject:	No, I'm not going to think of the children
From:		.jh
Date:		2010-12-08T12:25:22Z
Tags:		blog 2010 politics worst\ idea\ ever

[The Economist's Democracy in America blog](http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/12/regulations_and_trade-offs) today brings us news about
the "Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2008". I
won't rehash it all here, they do a very good job of explaining why
this is a particularly terrible piece of legislation.

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Needless to say your next car will probably be quite a bit more
expensive, as whoever was in charge of the cost benefit analysis was
drowned out by the indignant screams of "won't anybody please think of
the children".

Whatever happened to taking responsibility? The reason the kid got run
over was not because the car lacked a backup camera (which have been
available for many years as long as you're willing to pay for it
yourself), he got run over because the person driving the car wasn't
paying enough attention. Now it's the car manufacturers fault because
the buyer didn't get the optional backup camera? And the rest of us
are left footing the bill. George said it best: **fuck the children**.