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A mix of both I think. The plastic bag warning is aimed at parents of children mostly. Babies, love crinkly things. I know that my son when he started crawling
by themaninthedark 4y ago
A mix of both I think.
The plastic bag warning is aimed at parents of children mostly. Babies, love crinkly things. I know that my son when he started crawling would seek out the on floor garbage cans to play with the bags we used as a liner.
If you have someone who is not thinking about the ramifications, they would let the kid play with the bag, kid would end up putting it over their head(yay, surround sound) and some percentage would die.
There are similar warnings on buckets, about drowning. Kids that age love water, if they manage to get themselves head first in a 5 gallon bucket it only takes an inch of liquid of so for them to drown. Most people wouldn't think it takes so little.
- giantg2 4y agoIn theory, children that young shouldn't be unattended anyways. The onus shouldn't be on the company for not printing a warning, but on the parent for a lack of supervision (aka negligence).
- jessaustin 4y agoPrinting the warning might be cheaper than dealing with lawsuits? Courts don't accept "ha, Darwin!" as an argument.
- giantg2 4y agoAnd people still sue even if a warning was present. And nobody is saying "ha, darwin". They're saying stuff like "why weren't you supervising your 1 year old" or "how could we anticipate that someone would get [object] stuck in their butt".