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by friendly_fren 2308 days ago
individual freedom. I hate nanny government regulation. The government's role isn't to protect people from making bad decisions.

Harmful is subjective. Don't ban my plastic bags or straws.

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Fire risk batteries being harmful, for but one example, is hardly "subjective".

Apparently in your world, it's perfectly okay for Joe Johnson to create an Amazon merchant account called "Apple" and sell me and sell me defective products under the Apple label.

Allowing corporations to lie to you is not most people's idea of freedom.