> the cost of being able to have these magnets on your desk is probably dozens or hundreds of kids getting very sick.
I'd like to live in a society willing to pay that price.
I'd like to live in a society willing to pay that price.
I could be misreading you, but it sounds like you're stipulating that kids are getting hurt, and saying you'd be happier if we could hurt some reasonable amount of kids to get new desk toys. That is a different and more disturbing argument from the one that says that we should be able to have the desk toys and avoid the harm, too.
Don't you think asking such a question is not a terribly subtle way of calling somebody an asshole?
Very different both in tone and implication from "You're an asshole for saying that".
All of them kill astronomically more children than any toy, even taking into account their generally more practical uses. There are substitutes.
Society makes these decisions every day. We accept a large number of injuries and deaths due to cars because we feel they are still a net benefit (which may be debatable when public transportation might be a better option to reduce the numbers). We make these decisions around gun ownership - and obviously there is a large amount of controversy there - at least in the US.
Most importantly, accepting that some children will be injured or killed by a product doesn't mean that the person doesn't care, and won't take steps to use and store the product responsibly so as to prevent injury or death.
Well, you're lucky because Trump's making it happen.