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How is it legal to sell these things then? Why are they still on shelves? It's dangerous at its intended purpose, making it worse-than-useless.

• wyager 10y ago
  >It's dangerous at its intended purpose, making it worse-than-useless. You can't authoritatively say this until you have done a thorough cost analysis. Tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world own these sort of brushes and they're very useful and effective for cleaning. I would not be surprised if their utility exceeded the cost of a few GI injuries a year. To be clear, I wouldn't be surprised the other way either.
• colejohnson66 10y ago
  They're less dangerous than cars and yet people still drive
  • justinlardinois 10y ago
    I'm not sure I see the comparison. There are plenty of similarly priced alternatives to barbecue scrapers that work just as well while not being as dangerous. What are the alternatives to cars?
    • riffic 10y ago
      Planning that favors alternative modes such as walking, bicycling, and public transit.
      • harryjo 10y ago
        Does Amazon sell those? I can't find and planning that favors alternative modes in my local shopping district.
      • justinlardinois 10y ago
        "Planning" is not a product that a consumer can buy, and even then walking, bicycling, and public transit are most useful when you live in a densely packed area and aren't too concerned about traveling outside it. Plus, I was being contrary to what my parent said about the dangers of cars. Aren't bicycles more dangerous?
      • dredmorbius 10y ago
        Swapping out a component is vastly less complex than swapping out an entire system. I'd love to see high-density, walkable, transitable, low-distance development in more places. That would mean rebuilding the entire urban landscape, rewrites of layers upon layers of building codes and obligations, a writeoff of a vast amount of equity within the financial system, changing patterns of habits and desires, and more. You're involving every suburban homeowner everywhere, every city, county, state/provincial, and national government. The real estate lobby. Banks. Builders. Building suppliers. Architects. Good luck with that. Vs. outlawing a brush. This is pretty much an exemplar case of the difference between simple and complex problems.
      • clarry 10y ago
        Walking, bicycling, or public transit aren't alternatives for loading a desk and two chairs on the back seats and a couple backpacks & bags with clothes plus 50kg of hardware in the trunk... which I did just yesterday. Cars don't exist just to transport our bodies.
    • hvidgaard 10y ago
      You can buy them in every single hardware store. Even if you banned bbq specific ones, they would still be readily available.