To regulate or not to regulate?

fj12ryder wrote:
Also the regulations for fishing, and hunting partially, mainly came about because people could not be trusted to self-regulate, leading to over fishing, over hunting and scarcity of fish and game. A person may be smart, people are stupid.

Hard to disagree with that. Groups of people always act stupider than a person would on his or her own. Regulations don't exist simply because the gov't is evil and just wants to harass people. In fact, many regulations exist because people insisted the government step in and do something.

It doesn't matter on here who agrees or disagrees. The fact is, people don't police themselves very well.