As a Latin American living in North America, I find the obsession with extreme safety (including the fear of lawsuits) exhausting.
Fire codes are one:
I can't put a nice welcome mat in front of my door, because someone might trip on it during an evacuation.
Firetruck sirens are physically painful and always turned on.
Monthly alarm testing, again with physically painful volumes that I can't adjust.
My condo windows only open up to a length about 3/4 the width of an adult head.
Somehow, the rest of the world (outside the anglosphere) lives just fine without all of this.
The rest of the world puts more of the burden of individual safety on the individual themselves - for every new situation, we learn to judge safety for ourselves. In the article, the water section in Disneyland Japan is an instance of this.
Every now and then we hear of tourists from highly safety regulated countries getting in trouble for reckless behavior, as if they hadn't had the opportunity to develop that skill. The unfortunate situation with the tourist in North Korea comes to mind.
Fire codes are one:
I can't put a nice welcome mat in front of my door, because someone might trip on it during an evacuation.
Firetruck sirens are physically painful and always turned on.
Monthly alarm testing, again with physically painful volumes that I can't adjust.
My condo windows only open up to a length about 3/4 the width of an adult head.
Somehow, the rest of the world (outside the anglosphere) lives just fine without all of this.
The rest of the world puts more of the burden of individual safety on the individual themselves - for every new situation, we learn to judge safety for ourselves. In the article, the water section in Disneyland Japan is an instance of this.
Every now and then we hear of tourists from highly safety regulated countries getting in trouble for reckless behavior, as if they hadn't had the opportunity to develop that skill. The unfortunate situation with the tourist in North Korea comes to mind.
Topical: A scene from Hogfather https://geekxgirls.com/images/christmas/sword-safe-discworld...