Comment by eitland

> You could argue that the makers of go-karts are being priced out of the market: after all, the free market should make people put a price on their own safety.

> But the issue is often that people don’t really have a good grasp of what it truly means and you can’t put a monetary number on things like that.

Furthermore, here in Europe everyone pays for health care for everyone to some degree so allowing people to do outrageously stupid stuff ends up increasing the tax for everyone.