You do realize that that's a two-way street right?
Reasonable people may deal with the Nanny State in numerous ways.
What is "reasonable" varies depending on the person's situation in life. A father with a wife and children to support is liable to have one response; while an aging grandfather who has just been given 6 months to live by his doctor is liable to have a totally different response.
Today's "fathers" are tomorrow's "grandfathers". And once crossed by the Nanny State, those grandfathers are going to be well past the point of "making a list and checking it twice".
(You DO have to close one eye to aim...............)