Yes, please! Speaking as an environmentalist, I'd rather talk about the extreme short-sightedness of the British law, rather than go off on all the limits in modern life. I don't like many of the prohibitions either, but in the absence of personal responsibility and reasoned judgement, sometimes they're the only thing that works even slightly.
Does that mean I want to defend this law? --three lines of profanity excised-- NO! I personally think it's a stupid, pointless waste of time, and it's not even a good grandstanding move by the government. As a non-Brit, I'm just not sure what can be done about it, other than mocking any government who thinks that this is a good idea.
I forgotten who said it, but someone noted that while the amount of intelligence and knowledge in the universe is limited, the amount of idiocy and foolishness is not. This is another example of that truism.
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