Death By a Thousand Paper Cuts (or three feet of water)

When you bundle together these myriad intrusions into our lives, you wind up with Death By a Thousand Paper Cuts. The Nanny State is poison to a free society, a very dangerous over extension of government that usurps our personal autonomy and undermines a wide variety of freedoms, all the while claiming that doing so is beneficial to us and our fellow citizens.

Glenn Beck

As a man's body floats in three feet of water, 25 emergency workers stand and watch because they aren't 'trained' to go in water

Daily Mail

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And Mother left to die

Coming to a moralist busybody state near you:  School bans balls, School bans running, Recess games dangerous

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis