I’m always shocked when we go to Europe to see how little “bubble wrap” they have to save people from themselves. Disneyland Paris has a lake in the middle of their 3 moderate resorts and it doesn’t even have a fence around it to prevent people from falling in, that would never fly in litigious America. Their rooftops aren’t surrounded in railings on the off chance a worker has to go up there. There aren’t signs every 10 feet warning about potentially cancerous materials in everything you see and touch.
I’m all for change when theres a legitimate safety hazard but so much of what we do here is safety theater now, the idea we can “accident proof” the world is pipe dream.