• Soggy@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That painting on the wall could potentially fall and break in a hazardous way. The point is: regulation for its own sake is theater and it’s impossible to account for every conceivable risk. If a product is plausibly harmful under normal usage, sure. If it causes cancer when force-fed to rats in impossible proportions? Leave it be, study further perhaps.

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      3 hours ago

      That painting on the wall could potentially fall and break in a hazardous way.

      … And become like a dozen knives I have on a block 10 feet away? Okay.

      The point is: regulation for its own sake is theater

      No one is saying that’s not true. Why say that as if someone is saying it’s not true?

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      9 hours ago

      Well, to be fair, the painting ostensively offers a somewhat unique artistic value. There is a reward to go with the risk.

      Red 3 is simply a way to make things red, which we have tons of other ways of doing that don’t have any known risks

      • Soggy@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        That’s a solid argument: we have several ways to achieve the same result and should limit the riskiest because market forces aren’t going to correct for them. Much better than “get rid of this one possibly risky thing because I don’t personally value it.”