Friday, July 5
Imagine a world with less than half the regulations and laws of where you live, then imagine that the enforcement of the laws that are around is minimal. What you would get is something that closely resembled the town where I stayed.
Most of the guys riding Boda Bodas around shuttling people from here to there don’t have a permit, welding is an outdoor-on-the-street activity, and the government coming in to check whether or not your restaurant is following health code? Not a chance.
It’s not just that the government is less constricting, it seems the whole culture is a lot less restricting in general: little kids walking cattle and goats to and from where they stay, three year olds wielding machetes to cut fruit, the whole thing would make a lot of Western parents cringe.
As for myself, I kind of enjoy it, I feel less constricted to do the things I want to do, but I ask myself this question: would I really want less restrictions if that also meant that it came with disorder and the negative effects of that?
Dagan Trnka, undergraduate, mechanical engineering, UC Davis
Imagine a world with less than half the regulations and laws of where you live, then imagine that the enforcement of the laws that are around is minimal. What you would get is something that closely resembled the town where I stayed.
Most of the guys riding Boda Bodas around shuttling people from here to there don’t have a permit, welding is an outdoor-on-the-street activity, and the government coming in to check whether or not your restaurant is following health code? Not a chance.
It’s not just that the government is less constricting, it seems the whole culture is a lot less restricting in general: little kids walking cattle and goats to and from where they stay, three year olds wielding machetes to cut fruit, the whole thing would make a lot of Western parents cringe.
As for myself, I kind of enjoy it, I feel less constricted to do the things I want to do, but I ask myself this question: would I really want less restrictions if that also meant that it came with disorder and the negative effects of that?
Dagan Trnka, undergraduate, mechanical engineering, UC Davis
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