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MaggieL · 06-30-2006, 02:57 PM

Their charter is not to eliminate danger. Fortunately.

It is to restrict the sales of things that are "unreasonably" dangerous...a term that doesn't have a precice meaning. But when a bureaucrat needs to justify his existance, definitions suddenly becomes*very* stretchy.

That string there...it is unreasonably dangerous. You could choke on it, or trip over it. There's no warnings on the packaging at all...a death trap for the unwary consumer.

Edit to repair typo: "string" for "sting"

06-30-2006, 02:57 PM	#66
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Their charter is not to eliminate danger. Fortunately. It is to restrict the sales of things that are "unreasonably" dangerous...a term that doesn't have a precice meaning. But when a bureaucrat needs to justify his existance, definitions suddenly becomesvery stretchy. That string there...it is unreasonably dangerous. You could choke on it, or trip over it. There's no warnings on the packaging at all...a death trap for the unwary consumer. Edit to repair typo: "string" for "sting" __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..." Last edited by MaggieL; 06-30-2006 at 07:02 PM.