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I wonder if it's related to liability. If you give teenagers a bunch of chemicals and tell them to learn by experiment, they'll probably end up doing bad stuff
by csense 7y ago
I wonder if it's related to liability.
If you give teenagers a bunch of chemicals and tell them to learn by experiment, they'll probably end up doing bad stuff (drugs / poisons / explosions), either by accident or on purpose.
In 1850, society was a lot more accepting of this kind of thing than it is now.
- mncharity 7y agoPerhaps increasing concern for safety, and liability, and more recently, regulation of narcotics and explosive supply chains. It's a meme that a 1950's and earlier chemistry set couldn't be sold now, for all of the above. But apparently sets were already changing with increasing concern for safety from the 1960's on. VR/AR changes the relationship between safety and practice, so it'll be interesting to see what happens next.