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This is a silly argument that is often made. Everyone knows alcohol is a toxin. It is regulated. You have to be of certain age to buy it. It isn't normally in
by someothherguyy 2y ago
This is a silly argument that is often made.
Everyone knows alcohol is a toxin. It is regulated. You have to be of certain age to buy it. It isn't normally in things you consume daily as a secondary ingredient in doses that would be harmful. You can taste it if it is. If you cannot taste it, you can recognize the effects from drinking it.
The dose makes the poison with any substance, that is a base tenant of toxicology. Not many people are unintentionally poisoning themselves with water.
Food and drug regulations save lives. If you want to argue against them, please at least do so in a manner that doesn't rely on absurdist examples.
- apwell23 2y agoIts regulation has nothing to do with its cancer causing properties. Why are you even bringing that irrelevant point here? Who is being absurd now?
- skeaker 2y ago> Its regulation has nothing to do with its cancer causing properties. Only because that's so far down on the list of immediate issues it causes.
- someothherguyy 2y agoI am not sure you understood my comment. I wasn't calling anyone absurd, and I was using the fact that it is regulated to reinforce the idea that it is a known toxin.
- apwell23 2y agoAlcohol being regulated has nothing to do with it being a "known toxin".
- someothherguyy 2y agoYeah, it does.
- apwell23 2y agono it doesn't.