It’s all a blanket issue of reckless endangerment, something that common-sense common law once covered sufficiently. Government wants to compartmentalize transgressions so as to increase its bureaucratic staff sizes.

As to all that irritating crap that people do with their phones and other “communication devices,” I don’t want government micromanaging them. If they cause an incident while being distracted by their phone, bust’em and fine’em if it applies, and that’s it.

The constant use of cell phones and other devices is a symptom of anxiety: all these people don’t want to be alone, and compensate by over-socializing. It’s crazy, literally, because too many people, and the governments they spawn, are acting like what was once a minority: neurotic, obsessive/compulsive control freaks who bother the shit out of what was once a majority, and whose numbers are dwindling — namely, the rest of us.