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The regulation of drugs or most any consumer product is not due to the inherent danger of an item itself, but the danger presented to a consumer inside the cont
by kube-system 7mo ago
The regulation of drugs or most any consumer product is not due to the inherent danger of an item itself, but the danger presented to a consumer inside the context of societal mechanisms that influence behavior. You're right that many regulations don't make sense outside of a societal context -- but that's because they also don't exist outside of a societal context.
The reason we don't need tight regulations on bleach is because we don't have a societal issue causing people to drink it and hurt themselves... at least, not anymore: most of the locking lids on household cleaning chemicals are there by law.
- Bender 7mo agoThe reason we don't need tight regulations on bleach is because we don't have a societal issue causing people to drink it and hurt themselves.. I think you missed out on a long time period of 4chan. They managed to get a number of people to mix ammonia and bleach.
- kube-system 7mo agoMore people do this accidentally trying to clean something than have ever done it because 4chan told them to. Still, the incidence rate is low.
- Bender 7mo agoMaybe so. Still one would be amazed at how many people will follow extremely dangerous and dumb trends on the interwebs. Don't get me wrong, I see it as just a small part in the great filter much like I think we should remove all warning labels.