Should fireworks be allowed to be used by amateurs, and should there be restrictions on how many days a year that they can be let off? Like with smoking restrictions, there are strong views on either side.
Actually, I'm not going to get in to this debate. But if I did, I'm sure I would hear pro-pyrotechnics folk cite the Nanny State and 'infringement of freedom' and so forth. My point is that, unless you live on an island - with a population of one, you already live with rules, mores and restrictions. It's just that some are there to protect people ...at the cost of perhaps your own indulgence.
So, if i could tread on Benjamin Franklins's* toes a bit, I would add a third certainty ...
"'In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and regulations."
*Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789.
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