Should we ban 'bans'??

Ladies...
It's Friday and it's a little gray out but...Spring is coming! Hang on!

K and little K are off to VA for a soccer tourney. I'm sure they'll have a ton of fun and, hopefully, win too!

I was listening to the radio today as I drove around doing my errands and they were talking about banning trans fats in Boston. As you know, many Cities and Towns have banned trans fats in restaurants and Boston is even doing it with prepared foods in supermarkets.
Now, as a fitness professional, I am all for banning trans fats from our diets...BUT, shouldn't we take responsibility for keeping those things out of our foods ourselves? I mean, we're banning smoking in many establishments and outside the front doors of many establishments (which I totally support) but folks can still smoke if they wish. (I am for personal choice, though I do loathe smoking personally.) But, you really can't go into a restaurant and say, "Can I have mine WITH trans fats?" once they are banned. I mean, I don't think folks should smoke but they need to make that choice themselves. And, I don't think folks should eat a trans fat laden diet but...they need to choose wisely for themselves!
We've banned peanut butter sandwiches from many schools, as well as cupcakes and other, HORRORS, awful things like birthday cake, yet we allow the cafeteria to serve foods loaded with trans fats, in many cases much worse for kids than a cupacke. We're trying to ban cell phones while driving, yet we allow folks to change clothes, whack their children who are misbehaving in the backseat, drink and drive multiple times without consequences or eat their fast food while driving.
I know I know, there are many kids allergic to peanuts in school and it can be deadly. Ok, well WHY are there so many kids allergic to peanuts? There weren't when I was in school (admittedly, in the 'old days'). And, shouldn't parents teach their peanut allergic kids NOT to take food from others, given their allergy? Shouldn't we teach kids to 'make a choice' for themselves? Shouldn't we be researching the cause of all these peanut allergies? And, seriously, why can't Moms bring in cupcakes for a kid's birthday? Really? But they can eat C R A P in the cafeteria every, single day?
>>Is this making sense to you, because it doesn't to me!<<
And you don't want me talking on the celly while driving? Well, I'm going to have to so I can call in the DRUNK driver who just passed me, doing 90+ on Rte. 495, swerving side to side and about to kill someone. (And it's not their first violation and they are still out here!) Or, I need to call while I driving to report that parent in the front of the minivan who is literally beating the he** out of her kid WHILE she's speeding through red lights on Rte. 110.
Honestly, we wonder why people feel no personal responsibility anymore? Are you kidding? It's because we want to 'ban' everything so everyone says, "Well, driving down the highway painting my toenails wasn't banned, so I figured it was ok." "You didn't BAN crossing the street without looking so I figured I didn't have to look. I still don't get why I got hit by that car!"
D U H.
I guess my overall point is...THINK. We all have perfectly good brains and reasoning skills, let's use them. Our parents taught us consequences-if you touch a hot burner you will get burned. Our parents didn't 'ban' the stove so we wouldn't get burned, we had to learn not to touch it, right?
If you smoke your incidence of diseases that kill is higher.
If you eat a diet high in trans fats you risk obesity and all its complications and those could kill you.
If you are allergic to peanuts and eat them, you may die.
And if you don't use your brain and take personal responsibility for your own life-your brain could atrophy and, there again, you could die.
I do know some things needed to be banned for the safety of all but could we please use common sense or, soon, EVERYTHING will be banned!