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Would you trust such a person not to throw others around them under the bus to benefit themselves if they are left free to exploit such opportunities in daily l

• acdha 3y ago
  It’ll come down to what an investigation turns up. If they knowingly picked lead, sure, lock them up like any other poisoner. What I’d bet will turn up, however, is that they picked the lowest bidder and did the legal minimum required testing. In that case, I have trouble saying they’re uniquely dangerous to the public unless we’re also jailing, say, the CEOs of fossil fuel or tobacco companies, big meat suppliers like Tyson’s and the farmers whose worker mistreatment reliably produces E. coli outbreaks, or, for that matter, people who drive around looking at their phones since we could save ~40k lives a year by doing nothing more violent than taking away driver’s licenses from irresponsible people. It’s natural to be angry here but I think what we should be doing is channeling this anger into demands for more aggressive regulation. Waiting until people get sick is too late, we should expect things like lead or salmonella testing to be done constantly. We could crucify the CEO of this company on livestream and it wouldn’t have much lasting impact because the kind of people who do this think the odds of getting caught are low – change that and it’ll have a much bigger impact.