> Its about risk/reward. It's actually not. It's panic about perceived risk. Balloons kill about 8 kids a year, which is 16 times as much as magnet sets (1 d

> Its about risk/reward. It's actually not. It's panic about perceived risk. Balloons kill about 8 kids a year, which is 16 times as much as magnet sets (1 death in 2 years). We don't ban balloons, and few people would consider such a ban reasonable despite a clearly worse risk/reward tradeoff. Balloons are definitely not 16x more fun than magnet toys. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2239860 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2239860 > Most of us trust that toys for kids will be essentially harmless. We choose to live in a trusting society, yes. That doesn't make us guilty of anything. I don't agree with this at all. There are many toys I still won't give my 2-year-old, and even more that I'll only let her have under supervision. And she's actually an easy kid who doesn't tend to stick random stuff in her mouth. > This is such a subtle risk, its arguable that a printed warning on a paper container is insufficient. What happens when the packaging is discarded? Another kid enters the house? Your kid gives the toy away? I actually agree that the risk isn't obvious, unlike some people in this thread. The solution is labeling and education, though, not a ban. Kids die from random toys at a much higher rate that 1 every two years but we don't ban everything (just Kinder eggs, inexplicably).