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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (20201)	8/1/2001 2:39:32 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Next thing you know they'll outlaw McDonald's selling any coffee but iced coffee. Tsk tsk. Can't sell that. People might choke on the ice, or little children might get addicted to caffine. Have to sell only decaffinated room temperature coffee.

To: Lane3 who wrote (20201)	8/1/2001 6:32:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You don't have children. I appreciated the warning labels on toys that told me the parts were too small for children under 5. Packages are not always clear about the size of parts, and although I owned a choketester (A small tube that you use to check whether a small object is a choke hazard) I did not carry it with me at all times. I suppose adults can do anything they want to themselves- even if it costs me more in health insurance dollars because they don't all manage to kill themselves. But I would like children to be protected from careless manufacturers and from careless parents. One could casually discard these children as the cost of a free market, or suggest that it cleans up the gene pool to allow them to choke to death, and in fact I have heard both these suggestions made, but I disagree with them. I would hope that people terrified at the prospect of a lost zygote would be equally rabid about protecting already born children from choking to death in avoidable accidents.