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by briandear 3139 days ago
Simple question: why does the government need to ban this? Can’t people make their own decisions?

We have given government too much power. They ought not be our mommies.

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> We have given government too much power. They ought not be our mommies.

Does this government represent you? I assume it does not. So neither did you elect this government nor does it represent you, you did not lend it any power - this makes both "we" and "They ought not be our" rather interesting choices of words.

Why are hard drugs, automatic machine guns and explosive chemicals outlawed? Can't people make their own decisions?

The role of the state in a democracy is to manifest the will of the people - in this case there is a general desire for privacy, which precludes selling covert listening devices.

How do I go about making my own decision? I do not have the power to stop random children next to me from wearing such devices.
You also don't have the power to stop random teenagers or adults next to you from wearing such devices either, so that doesn't explain this decision.
Random teenagers and random adults are banned from wearing such devices as well under this law (they are even banned from possessing such devices at all).
There's a long list of items that are age restricted or age regulated (like school). How long does that list have to be for the mommy-state to kick in?