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Imagine that regular glass had not yet been invented, and someone came up with it today. I suppose people here would be questioning its safety.
by markdionne 16y ago
Imagine that regular glass had not yet been invented, and someone came up with it today. I suppose people here would be questioning its safety.
- khafra 16y agoThey'd be right to, there are significant health risks to regular glass. People cut arteries while accidentally sticking their hands through panes of it all the time.
- JabavuAdams 16y ago1) There's a long list of materials that are no problem outside your body but that are really bad for you when small pieces get inside your lungs. 2) There's a higher potential harm from new processes and materials that are used everywhere by consumers, versus being used by specialists in exposure-controlled environments. Because of (1) and (2), if there's anything wrong with this material, the harm will be multiplied. For example a possibly toxic material used in low-rate specialty manufacturing by protected workers is different from a possibly toxic material that's distributed in fun inhalers inside of cereal boxes. These concerns are not at all irrational, and are in fact more empirical than reflexive anti-questioning snarkery.