We live in an overly cautious world, and a large part of the blame is women and weak men

women, weak men, lawyers, safety professionals, and federal ES&H initiatives.

It’s not the women, it’s the lawyers and insurance companies.

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Wearing a harness and being tied off is for pussies.

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Hahaha

Real men hold their breath when they go into a cloud of H2S

Honestly, I think this is a great topic, because we absolutely like in an overly cautious world. The question is; why?

I've always felt as though being overly cautious was a selfish and lazy way to project virtue without risking anything. OSHA can mandate that a factory filter rain water that falls on its grounds, and pat themselves on the back for their environmental consciousness without ever having to be there to deal with the fall out of such a policy, or even try to understand if said policy is needed.

Politicians do this with hurricane preparedness, and now COVID. By fear, you create or enflame a problem, then you swoop in to "solve" that problem with ambiguous solutions that may or may not fix anything.

You left out trial lawyers. We live in a society where everyone is looking to sue for the smallest of things which is all encouraged by sleazeball lawyers.

Lawyers
Guns
Money


Suburban women

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It’s not the women, it’s the lawyers and insurance companies.

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As more and more emotional women become mayors, governors, judges, police chiefs, etc, you’ll see more and more decisions based on emotions

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We live in an overly cautious world,

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I agree - the cult of safety-ism is very real. It's not entirely new, though. I'm sure you remember the 70s and 80s where it seemed kidnapping and stranger danger were made to seem like they were 1000X worse than they ever were.

I still see a lot of soccer moms terrified of kidnapping, It's not particularly popular when I point out that they seem to have no qualms with the Indian/Chinese mom (who is a new driver) driving carpool for their kids, despite the fact that it's probably literally 5000X more dangerous than some rando kidnapping little Jaxsyn.

Nobody uses their own brain. I'm sure many of you actually pay attention to expiration dates on foods and medicines instead of just smelling it to see it's OK. I see grown man throw shite away all the time.

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and 1-110 because of suspected freeze. The weather didn’t get below 32 and there was no ice

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I was a dispatcher in BR during the ice storm awhile back. That was pure insanity. My fleet had 3 wrecks in the same location and a bunch of them were stuck on the other side of the river overnight. On my way to work (which I should not have gone), I saw a ton of wrecked cars and watched at least 3 go off the road. I puttered in at 20mph.

The city isn't prepared and probably could never be for once in a decade type storms. Nothing wrong with shutting it down and being cautious..

While I don't disagree totally with the overall theme, for this example, I think the blame should go towards our overly litigious society. Too many freakin lawyers and lawsuits. These schools and school leadership are scared to death of getting sued if anything goes awry. And this goes for a lot of things in our society.