Everyone who throws themselves into the hustle and bustle on the "great days" in Mainz and elsewhere not only wants to have fun, but also that nothing happens - and all the fools come home safe in the end.
From this point of view, it is important and right to demand a security concept from the respective organizers so that everything remains as peaceful and orderly as possible during the parades and the often hour-long after-parties on the streets and squares.
But despite all efforts, it can never be ruled out that a backpack is secretly placed somewhere on the extensive festival grounds, that an attacker disguised as a monk is carrying something forbidden under his robe or that a drone, despite a precautionary no-fly zone, is on the way into the city.
No amount of safety concept, no matter how extensive, will help against this life risk.
But it becomes unfair when the state, in this specific case the new Interior Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Michael Ebling (SPD), delegates responsibility downwards.
According to Ebling's credo, districts and municipalities know best what needs to be done in the respective city or community, and leaves the organizing clubs alone when it comes to financing the maintenance of customs.
But which regulatory office employee or carnival president from Kleinkleckersdorf should in future have the courage to waive even a few security requirements of the state at their own discretion.
And who, as a volunteer, would be willing to take responsibility for a fool's parade in their neighborhood or home community?
However, if you take a closer look, this also applies to other folk festivals throughout the year.
In the end, the only thing left to do was to organize exclusively commercial events in areas specially cordoned off, with fixed access and monitored by professional security forces.
Which sounds crazy and would be pretty foolish in view of the 2023 motto: In Mainz, Fastnacht stands for peace, freedom, tolerance.