Oddly the countries that don’t do this have far better outcomes.

Imagine being allowed to have a beer outside, or after 2 am, oh the humanity. Surely such a society would devolve immediately into chaos.

What if the government wasn’t meant to be a strange parent that let you kill your kids but felt having a beer outside was too much freedom. It might just lead to being the happiest country on earth.

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not_a_bot_4sho an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Oddly the countries that don’t do this have far better outcomes

Go on

	▲	_3u10 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://news.gallup.com/interactives/248240/global-emotions....
	▲	dlev_pika an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		For example, smoking tobacco in Japan… wait a minute

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refulgentis an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Imagine being allowed to have a beer outside, or after 2 am, oh the humanity.

Where do you live that this is not possible?

(I know you’re speaking loosely, I.e. you mean “where I live bars have to stop serving alcohol at 2 Am” but it’s so loose that there’s 0 argument made here, figured I’d touch on another aspect leading to that, other replies cover the others. Ex. The 2 AM law isn’t about you it’s about neighborhoods with bars)

	▲	_3u10 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		i don't live there anymore, but BC or, Dubai as another example although Dubai is oddly more lax about liquor than most of the US or Canada. It's also about liquor stores which have to close at midnight, so its not just about neighborhoods with bars. Where I live 5 grams of coke, 10 grams of weed, is legal, you can buy and drink alcohol 24/7, and bars can be open as late as they want even with outdoor patios, even in front of the Presdiential Palace. And you can drink outside on the street. Its also the happiest country on earth. (As measured by happiness, not some lame proxy like public healthcare) I would never again live in the global north, or a country that lacked western values.