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Re:Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavor... by ryandrake on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:26PM (#20930746)
If you simply ban anything that’s even remotely risky, then yes, it will save some lives. Is it worth it? Do you want to live in a world where we are all walking around inside padded plastic bubbles?

Some time between my childhood and today, society collectively lost its mind and decided that the only acceptable way to manage risk is to relentlessly drive it towards zero through the force of law. We are going to end up with a boring, sterile and ultra-safe world.

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Re:Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavor... by freehunter on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:41PM (#20930935)
The slope is never as slippery as people imagine it to be. Why does every safety regulation always have to end in "kids in plastic bubbles" in the minds of alarmists? And why was the best time to grow up always exactly the time when the "back in my day" people were growing up? No matter when I grew up everything was always perfect when I was a kid, right?

It should go without saying that children dying from preventable causes is not a very good thing to have happen.

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