An angry and embarrassed Daley canceled the program. It's not about safety, but control. Same thing with this program.
You're absolutely right there. Most things these allegedly well-intentioned {expletives} force on us or try to force on us couched in "safety" terms are not. They are, as you say, about control.
I grew up eating raw cookie dough, riding around in the back of a station wagon not even in a seat, said car had no airbags, no 5mph bumpers, had a V-8 and could go well over 100 (don't ask how I *know* this), no cell phones, running all over the neighborhood playing sports with friends in yards - no carefully groomed and padded play areas. We built tree-houses, we camped out without adult supervision, we learned to shoot real rifles, we hunted, rode ridiculously fast off-road bikes... and yes, a few of us took a few trips to the ER for a broken this, lacerated that. We survived, we look back on the scars and memories and smile. Are our kids these days really making memories?