> It's almost like there's a balance of harms to be evaluated.
Yes, and I don't trust that the government can generate a one size fits all model that universally reduces harm. They're just not capable of it, and yet they comfortably assert their authority as if they are, and so they act without actually taking any measure of the impact of their own actions.
It's the problem with any agency. Sometimes the best answer is actually "do nothing" or most likely "regulate elsewhere through different authority."
So, I don't think the FDA paying an oversized amount of attention to one retail segment is going to do anything meaningful in the long term and we shouldn't have to pay for their amateur expeditionary efforts here, both in terms of funding the agency, and in allowing them to control markets on their own without any request or complaint process driving their actions.
Yes, and I don't trust that the government can generate a one size fits all model that universally reduces harm. They're just not capable of it, and yet they comfortably assert their authority as if they are, and so they act without actually taking any measure of the impact of their own actions.
It's the problem with any agency. Sometimes the best answer is actually "do nothing" or most likely "regulate elsewhere through different authority."
So, I don't think the FDA paying an oversized amount of attention to one retail segment is going to do anything meaningful in the long term and we shouldn't have to pay for their amateur expeditionary efforts here, both in terms of funding the agency, and in allowing them to control markets on their own without any request or complaint process driving their actions.