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What would happen that was bad if we banned this until we had more safety evidence?
by andy_ppp 3y ago
What would happen that was bad if we banned this until we had more safety evidence?
- coldtea 3y agoSome companies would lose money. We can't allow that.
- kerkeslager 3y agoThis is Hacker News, so you should probably include a "/s" to indicate sarcasm, because otherwise you'll get a lot of people agreeing with you.
- objektif 3y agoI would say yes few would agree but fortunately HN is still not filled with late stage capitalist idiots.
- Forbo 3y agoPeople get buttmad and downvote you for pointing out manmade global extinction events and daily death tolls from pollution. HN isn't immune from these shitbags. This site has a lot more capitalists than environmentalists.
- p0pcult 3y agoif one includes the "/s" then they get a lot of people arguing that profit is why companies exist.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoThe whole point of sarcasm is that people misunderstand causing funny situations. If you are going to signal it with eg. /s you may as well just say what you mean.
- andy_ppp 3y agoI've just started reading Flowers for Algernon, highly recommended.
- herculity275 3y agoThese are the kind of well-sourced comments I come to Hacker News for
- coldtea 3y agoAh, the kind of zero-content, off topic, smug meta-comments I come to Hacker News for!
- _Algernon_ 3y agoAh, the kind of stupid chain comments i come to Reddit for... Oh wait
- wahnfrieden 3y agoThat’s why cyanide is allowed in adult fruit and smoothie drinks without safety thresholds while it was only recently banned via pressure for children’s products. Setting a maximum amount of cyanide cuts into profits so there’s a lobby against it.
- throwaway2037 3y agoDoes it come from apple seeds? I found a paper about it: Cyanide Toxicity of Freshly Prepared Smoothies and Juices Frequently Consumed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731941/
- jjkaczor 3y agoExactly. Asbestos has been banned for most usage in Canada since the early 1990's. However... Canada continues to be one of the biggest exporter of Asbestos in global-trade. Can't allow multi-national - and national corporations with local holdings to not turn a profit, right? After all - there are local jobs that are more important... (well, until the taxes collected on those activities are outweighed by the healthcare costs of the local population as they age...)
- c0balt 3y agoThat would be selfish, think of the profits /s
- refurb 3y agoWe’d still be using carbon tetrachloride which is even more toxic? TCE was a safer alternative.
- Joker_vD 3y agoSafer? CC4 decomposes into phosgene at high (about 250 Celcius) temperature, which is why using it in fire extinguishers was a bad idea but TCE does that when simply exposed to light, at room temperature. And if those LD/LC numbers that I'm looking at are correct, TCE is actually slightly more toxic.
- refurb 3y agoCarbon tetrachloride is used in research to reliably create liver damage. It's very toxic. "Carbon tetrachloride is one of the most potent hepatotoxins (toxic to the liver), so much so that it is widely used in scientific research to evaluate hepatoprotective agents." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tetrachloride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tetrachloride
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