> On Jun 13, 2021, at 8:53 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> wrote:
>
> Imagine if cars or medicines or food were produced with that as a guiding
> principle.
They are. The state requires extensive training and licensing before one is
allowed to operate a car or to prescribe medicine. There's no such requirement
for food (unless you're selling prepared meals to others) and as a result
factory food has caused enormous damage to health; and the licensing
requirements don't stop people from doing great harm with all three. Yet only
prescription drugs have restrictions on distribution: I've bought a bunch of
cars over the years and never once has the seller asked for my driver's
license. There's exactly one non-prescription drug with a restriction,
psuedoephedrine, and that's to make it hard to buy enough to cook meth--but the
permitted amount is more than enough to poison someone.
There are also lots of examples of things readily available for sale where the
user is well advised to get some training before using them, but there's no
actual requirement to do so. Power saws are an excellent example. "If not
duffer won't cut thumb off", to paraphrase Ransome.
Caveat emptor is the way of the world.
Regards,
John Ralls
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