Jeffrey Tucker ruminates on the costs of government regulations of playgrounds in this Freeman essay today. The regulators demand the utmost in safety, but there is a considerable price involved, Tucker argues. I love his closing line that the efforts at regulating all risk out of playgrounds “is a metaphor for life under all-around state control.” The mega-state tries to protect everyone against every risk. The trouble is that risks can’t be eliminated and what the state manages to do is to render people less capable of assessing risk and dealing with life’s inevitable injuries.