This article points out an interesting tendency amongst some social engineers.

The article discusses the likely aftermath of a motorcycle accident where the rider was found to be … gasp … un-helmeted. Some blame the US state in question for not legislating helmets. The article observes:

I wonder how many women who piously preach that the government can’t tell us what to do with our bodies typically vote for helmet laws that tell people, uh, what they can do with their bodies.

It reminds me of an analogous though more obvious pair: the concurrent promotion of free speech (such as to protest some out-of-favour politician) and the demonization of “hate speech” (any repugnant ideological expression). Or that peculiar spectacle of some environmentalists: do-as-I-say (use a horse & buggy) not-as-I-do (use chauffeured SUVs and jets to hop from speech to speech).