I do not think the government jumps on anything because it is good. They do it because the politicians decided it is in their personal best interest.

Otherwise, explain to me why it is illegal to cut hair without a license in some states.

Well, I understand being ginger about methods that seem too "home-remedy-ey"

Are you serious? What states?

https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2015/01/is-it-legal-to-charge-friends-for-haircuts.html

Oooh, it's fine if you do it for free

There are raids. People get arrested. It benefits no one but the industry that lobbied for it. It saves no one.

Yeah, technically tons of things are illegal to do for money without a license

Doing it for free doesn't make it any safer. Being safer is the premise for requiring a license.

Nah, it's to protect the industry

That is like saying you can own a nucnear bomb as long as you built it yourself.

I had a friend who was a wedding photographer. She charged too little and got into trouble for it

She had the license and everything but other wedding photographer complained that it was unfair competition

Also the industry protecting itself at her expense.

Yeah

Same kind of thing, and stupid. They wanted the right to overcharge

She ended up switching to taking pictures of babies, apparently people are less annoyed about competition in that field

At least there are clever ways around it sometimes. I like that Uber has killed the taxi monopoly.

We just need better tools to cut our own hair.

Depending on the haircut, you can get a trimmer that does the job fine

Harder if you have longer hair though

I go to one person for a haircut. I trusted her for years.

I tried that once. The result was not pretty.

10 bucks (15 with tip but still).

I had long hair. I wanted to cut it myself real bad.

I will surely try again sometime. Preferably on a weekend so I can still save myself before Monday morning.

I usually cut my hair myself, but I also don't care too much if it looks a bit weird. I have short hair right now, but I used to have shoulder-length hair. I used scissors then, not trimmers.

I have really long hair now. 🙂 I'm thinking of growing it out more, actually. Maybe dying it something neon. Idk

My long hair had to be sacrificed. Its fine when living on a boat and working remotely. Not that great for job interviews in the city.

That's a real real shame. I'm sorry to hear that. Surely in the city they would be open to you having a pony tail, at least? I thought cities were less sexist about this stuff. :/

@Tiggy I don't know. It seemed like a bad time to find out.

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@Bobby_Hill and one could be Hitler, but that's not really relevant, is it?

honestly, the issue is a little too grey for my tastes...

you have serious medical situations, where the fetus is literally killing the mother, thats clear cut

but you have other situations like... low income single mother that doesn't know who the father is

or a wife that doesn't want to have to deal with children getting secret abortions while her husband thinks they are 'trying'

when its non-medical its a very grey issue

some situations are almost abuse to the fathers... from my perspective

or situations are probably for the best

its just such an ocean of situations

when it is a personal choice... its really just case by case basis on whether it seems 'right'