Attitudes like yours (not trying to poke at you unnecessarily, just trying to get you to think about this issue) are the reason why government power continues to grow. "If we just appease them by filling out these forms," you think, "they'll just go away and leave us alone."
In reality, it is the fact that people unquestioningly go along with the absurd demands of government that government continually ups its demands of citizens. Appeasment does not work with liberal statists. They figure that if you'll put up with the little intrusions, you'll put up with big ones, too. They just incrementally add more restrictions and requirements to your life, and by the time you realize just how much autonomy and freedom you have lost, the govt has so much power that it is now very hard to rein in.
We have to start fighting over the seemingly benign "little stuff" or soon we'll be fighting over the not-so-benign "big stuff."
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".