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Disagree. This is a terrible worldview to take: he's just smarmy because he's familiar with the Chemistry topic, but would he still be alive today if not for th
by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Disagree. This is a terrible worldview to take: he's just smarmy because he's familiar with the Chemistry topic, but would he still be alive today if not for the many electrical standards and regulations that meant he can charge his iPhone without electrocuting himself?
All sorts of technology is at the forefronts of our worlds and this can only be done _because_ people don't have to be an expert in every subject to interact with these things safely. Ex ABS brakes mean I don't need to have racecar driver skills.
And at the end of the day there's nothing stopping modern parents from being responsible parents and buying their kids a proper adult chemistry set and supervising the use of it, teaching the child to respect it in the same way that my Father taught me to respect mains electricity when mucking about with electronics stuff (by hooking me up to a line tester and giving me a shock "it will be 1000x worse than this) and that lesson sticks with me to this day, mains is scary.