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My apartment in California carried the same warning, because it had a chlorinated pool. California’s cancer warnings are so ubiquitous that they are meaningles
by dpark 8y ago
My apartment in California carried the same warning, because it had a chlorinated pool.
California’s cancer warnings are so ubiquitous that they are meaningless. The only thing they do is alarm people new to the area if they aren’t familiar with the proposition.
- KirinDave 8y agoIt's pretty unfortunate, but it's a good example of how a law can do the exact opposite of what it was intended to do unless it's considered carefully, and messaging risk is a non-trivial task in written communication.
- dpark 8y agoI sometimes wish we created more time-bound laws with expirations or phase outs (depending on the particular law). It’s politically more difficult to get a law repealed than passed. If laws that may have unintended consequences could expire on their own (requiring a legislative act for extension), we might have fewer laws like this on the books. Would enough people actually vote to extend this law? Of course no one wants the law they’re writing to expire because it can’t possibly be a mistake.
- KirinDave 8y agoThe only thing I'd be for in this is renewals on California-style prop systems. Systems that can create problems because they're decoupled from a requirement to answer, "How do we fund this?" Otherwise, I think the answer to, "How do we make regulation less burdensome while still being effective" can never be, "By making it change even more!"