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U.S. bill would require labels to warn of choking
"Roger Schlafly" wrote in message ...
"Elizabeth Reid" wrote 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. ... The warnings become meaningless if every product has scary warnings. Even toothpaste now has warnings on it. Why 'even' toothpaste? Toothpaste having a warning on it doesn't seem all that strange, it's a quasi-medical substance even though most people don't think of it that way. Most products don't have warnings of any kind. As long as each warning message isn't just WARNING: THIS PRODUCT MIGHT BE DANGEROUS, I don't think they necessarily become meaningless as more products are labeled. If each warning specifies the conditions for safe use and the conditions under which the product is dangerous, they're not all the same. In fact, if more things are labeled, people might get in the habit of looking for the labels and that would make them more meaningful rather than less. Beth |
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