You got me. I don’t eat out much since I don’t generally like or trust what’s being offered and, despite the laws, I am pretty sure my food gets spat in and dropped on the floor far more than it would if I made it myself. I must be an exception for questioning the reliability and cleanliness of teenagers making minimum wage. (But I’m not wanting to impose my choice on others…)
As for headlights, seat-belts, and windshield wipers, I don’t see how that compares to proving, ab initio, a food’s safety. The costs are on completely different scales. Studies around un-established products cost overwhelmingly more and often advance (we’d starve if we were talking about food) whereas adding windshield washers and seat-belts to pre-existing products that benefited significantly during their developmental years from the lack of regulation, are two very different things.
More importantly and directly relevant however: I reserve the right to put anything I want in my body. I want the choice, and won’t part with it.
To be clear, I don’t think automakers should be forced to include any of those things either since it has become virtually impossible to build or import a kit to build your own car, basically creating a situation where only SUVs (the processed chicken fingers of existing designs) and similar designs, and the manufacturers that can afford to produce them, do high volumes of business. If we ever want flying cars we’ll need to clear out the legal brush there too - but due to the differences in scale, I’m less likely to focus on the latter.
We can agree on that: deception is wrong. How about a label that reads “this is not a drug”? (I’d also be more than happy to see the “good name” of drugs, which I do not believe are being held to high standards, corrected in the public’s mind.) I think a moral is that skepticism is something we could all use more of…
The gold standard for justice however is still “innocent until proven guilty” even when it means some choices contain risk. We cannot eliminate risk, or terror for that matter, or papercuts, by eliminating freedom or paper; I am not afraid of freedom or paper.
