Perhaps if we truly educated our people we would not have a need for a nanny to tell us when the stove is hot!
The problem is, largely, that the regulations that get written are not always reasonable. In addition regulation today is most often predicated on the supposition that people are too stupid to bother with doing any thinking. For example; coffee is hot, keep away from sensitive parts of the body! But since somebody was too (insert appropriate adjective) to secure the coffee money has to be spent to make a warning that those very same people will not read! Same goes for signing contracts.

The Taco Bell thing was an allegory. Stole it from a movie!

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I know that we have higher standards in Canada regarding meat quality so Taco Bell has to use a different supply chain. And even Americans say the Taco Bell's are better here so those standards appear to be working!

I don't favor all choice being regulated, and I do believe in analysis of costs and risks vs benefits. I just think you're advocating no regulation at all, because you're against it in the areas that most need it (health and financial).