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If you wait for someone else to think for you and protect you from all the dangers in life, you'll be waiting a long time. The "regulators" are the same people

If you wait for someone else to think for you and protect you from all the dangers in life, you'll be waiting a long time. The "regulators" are the same people and entities who make huge profits off this stuff. Do your research and act on it yourself.

wing-_-nuts 6y ago
>Do your research and act on it yourself. Or, we could acknowledge that most of the general public doesn't have the education necessary, and have the government regulate on our behalf. You know... like they're elected to do. Average Joe truck driver or Jane LPN shouldn't have to have an indepth knowledge of endocrinology just to be safe from the greed and callousness of polluting corporations.
- forgotmypw17 6y ago
  > Or, we could acknowledge that most of the general public doesn't have the education necessary, and have the government regulate on our behalf. You know... like they're elected to do. Hmm... Are you talking about the regulators who come from the same industry which produces the pollutants and are heavily lobbied by that industry? > Average Joe truck driver or Jane LPN shouldn't have to have an indepth knowledge of endocrinology just to be safe from the greed and callousness of polluting corporations. While I agree with your "shouldn't have to", there is no reason that they cannot read the same research papers and understand them enough to come to their own conclusions. We are blessed with being able to access that information, and I think it is foolish to not take advantage of that privilege.
- atq2119 6y ago
  > Or, we could acknowledge that most of the general public doesn't have the education necessary, and have the government regulate on our behalf. It's also worth acknowledging that having this kind of regulation makes our society more efficient. I would be capable of informing myself on this issue, but I don't. The are so many issues of this kind that if I were to attempt to inform myself on all of them, I wouldn't be able to get anything done anymore. Another way of looking at it is that regulation is a form of implicit specialization, which is why it helps us be more efficient.
  - forgotmypw17 6y ago
    On one hand, it is more efficient. On the other hand, it has proven to be vulnerable to centralized error, as we can see from tobacco, GRAS, PFOAs, and many other examples. I believe that the regulation system overall is GOOD and not malicious, and catches up EVENTUALLY, but it's incredibly SLOW, if anything just due to its SIZE. You could be waiting for YEARS or decades for it to catch up to information that is available to you TODAY, if you just open your eyes and look.

wing-_-nuts 6y ago

>Do your research and act on it yourself. Or, we could acknowledge that most of the general public doesn't have the education necessary, and have the government regulate on our behalf. You know... like they're elected to do. Average Joe truck driver or Jane LPN shouldn't have to have an indepth knowledge of endocrinology just to be safe from the greed and callousness of polluting corporations.

forgotmypw17 6y ago
> Or, we could acknowledge that most of the general public doesn't have the education necessary, and have the government regulate on our behalf. You know... like they're elected to do. Hmm... Are you talking about the regulators who come from the same industry which produces the pollutants and are heavily lobbied by that industry? > Average Joe truck driver or Jane LPN shouldn't have to have an indepth knowledge of endocrinology just to be safe from the greed and callousness of polluting corporations. While I agree with your "shouldn't have to", there is no reason that they cannot read the same research papers and understand them enough to come to their own conclusions. We are blessed with being able to access that information, and I think it is foolish to not take advantage of that privilege.
atq2119 6y ago
> Or, we could acknowledge that most of the general public doesn't have the education necessary, and have the government regulate on our behalf. It's also worth acknowledging that having this kind of regulation makes our society more efficient. I would be capable of informing myself on this issue, but I don't. The are so many issues of this kind that if I were to attempt to inform myself on all of them, I wouldn't be able to get anything done anymore. Another way of looking at it is that regulation is a form of implicit specialization, which is why it helps us be more efficient.
- forgotmypw17 6y ago
  On one hand, it is more efficient. On the other hand, it has proven to be vulnerable to centralized error, as we can see from tobacco, GRAS, PFOAs, and many other examples. I believe that the regulation system overall is GOOD and not malicious, and catches up EVENTUALLY, but it's incredibly SLOW, if anything just due to its SIZE. You could be waiting for YEARS or decades for it to catch up to information that is available to you TODAY, if you just open your eyes and look.