• Soggy@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    You willing to apply that logic to every unnecessary decoration in your life?

    • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I mean, yeah. Potentially harmful but otherwise useless materials? I try to reduce those whatever possible.

      • Soggy@lemmy.world
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        6 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.

        • Carnelian@lemmy.world
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          5 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