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In an alternate universe the onus of safety would reside with those introducing copious quantities of something into human environments.

Unfortunately we do not live in that universe.



If we took that approach with everything nobody would be using cellphones.


And between the 1.6M distracted driving crashes each year, social media and educational impacts it would have been the right thing to do.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-safety-cou...


Nobody would be using cellphones now you mean. They would be evetually. The benefits of patience outweigh the costs.


Sounds good to me!


Yeah, safety takes decades to study conclusively, it’s simply antithetical to fast-paced industrial world.

Sometimes I read accounts on industrial revolution England and think “how the heck people survive THAT.” Several decades from now there will be people who think of us the same way haha.




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