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> 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 wort

> 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.