The author gets close but doesn't connect the final dots. Appeals to dogma and authority are a rhetorical force multiplier, kind of like a DDOS reflection atta

The author gets close but doesn't connect the final dots. Appeals to dogma and authority are a rhetorical force multiplier, kind of like a DDOS reflection attack where a little bit of data creates a much bigger problem. People invoke safety for the same reason a thousand years ago people invoked god. It's a religion, it's dogmatically considered good by default and it takes massive effort to argue against it. Some manipulating jerk can invoke the name of either with a few simple words and anyone who wishes to call them on their moral bankruptcy needs to spend orders of magnitude more words doing so if they are to produce a rebuttal that cannot be trivially dismissed, bogged down or diverted. And unless we as a society are prepared to punish people for employing these rhetorical tricks it will keep happening. And FWIW I'm addressing the author's point in general, not in this specific case of a statement made by a company. I'm aware that when companies say safety they usually mean "their safety from the mob or the state or the ambulance chasing lawyers"