Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...
Exactly. There are better examples. Chalk is a bad one because it is, technically, edible, and still being used as an additive to this day.
Because people are dumb. Chalk is in milk, now, right on the label…even marketed as a feature.
But if you tell that to any random schmuck they either won’t believe you or they’ll be disgusted. And then probably keep drinking it anyway.
And that’s with the information right there on the label.
I’m not trying to downplay the example, but there were far worse atrocities fixed by regulations.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Exactly. There are better examples. Chalk is a bad one because it is, technically, edible, and still being used as an additive to this day.
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Because people are dumb. Chalk is in milk, now, right on the label…even marketed as a feature.
But if you tell that to any random schmuck they either won’t believe you or they’ll be disgusted. And then probably keep drinking it anyway.
And that’s with the information right there on the label.
I’m not trying to downplay the example, but there were far worse atrocities fixed by regulations.
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago