Do We Really Have to Craft Legislation With the Stupidest 0.0001% in Mind?
A pair of New York politicians has introduced legislation that would force consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble to make their Tide Pod product less appetizing to human beings.
If passed, Senate bill S100A would require liquid detergent packets sold in the state of New York to be “designed in an opaque, uniform color that is not attractive to children and is not easily permeated by a child’s bite.”
The bill further states that each Tide Pod packet should be “enclosed in a separate, individual, non-permeable, child-resistant wrapper” and that the package they come in should have a warning label saying the product is “harmful if swallowed.”
These two legislators get their one news cycle of fame from this and 24 hours of virtue signalling how much they care, and the rest of humanity has to live with their stupidity for decades.
Even beyond the self-serving stupidity of even introducing such legislation, its specifics are even dumber, making sense only if the recent Tide pod consumption was somehow accidental, like an infant putting it in her mouth. This regulation would have done pretty much zero to stop the recent insane social media challenge that drove a few people to eat these things. Now when I put my little pod in the dishwasher, am I really going to have to struggle to get the thing out of some child-proof wrapper? We can't just put every one in unopenable blister pack and be done with it?
