> Wouldn't it be nice if there were more government warnings and less restrictions / regulations? ... A whole raft of restrictions could be converted to warnin

> Wouldn't it be nice if there were more government warnings and less restrictions / regulations? ... A whole raft of restrictions could be converted to warnings and recommendations, freeing up industry to innovate No, not without specific examples of how government regulations are a burden on innovation. Whenever people argue this point in industry X it always seems difficult to come up with concrete examples. > and consumers to take a little more responsibility for themselves. Secondly, again no. Consumers are not rational machines who make rational decisions based on time spent researching what they are consuming.