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I dunno... the way it feels on the other side is that y'all think people are too dumb to not hurt themselves with hammers--which is true!!--and so, rather than trust that people who are afraid of hammers will simply avoid using a hammer they should be actively prevented from even owning a hammer, or even letting their friend or a hired carpenter use a hammer to help them, which is kind of overkill.



Relying on people not being dumb doesn't work out in practice.

There's lots of stuff you're not allowed to do because we figured out the average person can't do it without endangering others.


> which is kind of overkill.

But a profitable one




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