We need to stop regulating actions, but penalise bad outcomes.
For example why is it that in Singapore - the definition of a nanny state to most - I can sit in a food court and down a long neck, or go to a night club and be sold sealed bottles of spirits, mixers and ice and me and my mates be left to mix drinks ourselves at our table; but in Australia I have to put up with RSA garbage? Same in Japan - free pouring spirits everywhere, beer in vending machines etc.
The difference in those places are that you are smashed if you mess up - be drunk and disorderly in public or violent, but left alone if you behave.
It used to be like that here. I started going to pubs at 14 and noone cared. In Year 11 & 12 we went to the pub in our free periods in our school uniforms and noone cared - so long as you behaved yourself. Now anyone who looks under 30 (I wish) gets asked for ID.
For example why is it that in Singapore - the definition of a nanny state to most - I can sit in a food court and down a long neck, or go to a night club and be sold sealed bottles of spirits, mixers and ice and me and my mates be left to mix drinks ourselves at our table; but in Australia I have to put up with RSA garbage? Same in Japan - free pouring spirits everywhere, beer in vending machines etc.
The difference in those places are that you are smashed if you mess up - be drunk and disorderly in public or violent, but left alone if you behave.
It used to be like that here. I started going to pubs at 14 and noone cared. In Year 11 & 12 we went to the pub in our free periods in our school uniforms and noone cared - so long as you behaved yourself. Now anyone who looks under 30 (I wish) gets asked for ID.