Do-gooders, closet totalitarianists, 'This-is-for-your-own-good..ists', and all other bureaucratic wowsers are experts at jumping onto personal tragedies and twisting the heartbreak into some new restriction and/or legislative straightjacket, Mark Steyn elucidates:
...there have been a small number of bullied teens driven to suicide, and these particular deaths are tragedies for the families involved that blow a great big hole in their lives that can never be repaired. But they are not a cause for wrongheaded public policy. Hard cases make bad law, and hard cases hijacked by social engineers, backed by state bureaucracies and bankrolled by dimwit boardroom patsies make bad law on a catastrophic scale.
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