"Roger Schlafly" wrote in message . ..
"Elizabeth Reid" wrote
U.S. bill would require labels to warn of choking
"I am an educated person but I never realized how dangerous a hot dog
could be."
So what's your feeling about this, JG? Here's an educated person
who missed a danger. Should an "expert" have warned her, or not?

The danger is exaggerated. How many kids die every year from hot
dogs? Most toddlers can chew hot dogs just fine. Mine loved hot
dogs, and never had a problem.

Well, sure. If something is uniformly fatal to infants, few
parents are going to consider giving it to them. I don't
see there being a big push to warn parents that rat poison
can be fatal to infants, because, well, duh.

At some level I agree with what I'm charitably going to assume
is your underlying premise, that at some point dangers are
small enough that it's not 'worth' mounting a big
societal effort to eradicate them. But is your basis for
concluding that this danger is one of them really that
your kids survived hot dogs? That's lame.

Beth