>Thomas J. Midgley
Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color?
If so things are going to get really interesting.
Mad scientist supreme or no, he had any number of corporate interests financially invested in his success in stonewalling against reform.
In the Veritasium video he mentions how Midgley pulled the age old trick of exposing yourself to your own chemicals on stage to show they are safe. He poisoned himself with one of these stunts and was never the same. Literally hoisted on his own petard.
There’s a plausible theory that tomatoes were mistaken for poisonous due to lead dinner plates of that era.
With the possible exception of the counterfeit wine example, that’s all very ethically different from pumping it into the air.
"Lead acetate, also known as sugar of lead, is a salt that (ironically) has a sweet flavor—a fairly unusual quality in poisons, which are more likely to taste bitter, signaling to the taster that they are unsafe for consumption. The ancient Romans used the compound—which they called sapa—to sweeten wine"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-...
:: looks on past in abject horror ::
You are literally a winning lottery ticket, so enjoy it while you can.
That's not what is happening here in the slightest.
Seems like a pretty straightforward statement to me