A real buzzkill (seriously; the environment dudes)

[CoccoBill]

Ok... and once you start selling [bottles of water laced with arsenic], how long do you think you will be in business?

How long will it take for people to notice it has arsenic if it's not tested, the people getting sick or dying from it are not receiving public health care and public news media is not covering the issue? Then when they do get caught and lose business, they just need to change their brand name and continue on. Obviously lacing water with arsenic is a bit dumb, rather use nicotine or opiates or something, much more effective. In a world without regulation and health standards, please explain how the tasteless and odorless nicotine in a bottle of water gets noticed.

[Monty3038]

How long will it take for people to notice it has arsenic if it's not tested, the people getting sick or dying from it are not receiving public health care and public news media is not covering the issue? Then when they do get caught and lose business, they just need to change their brand name and continue on. Obviously lacing water with arsenic is a bit dumb, rather use nicotine or opiates or something, much more effective. In a world without regulation and health standards, please explain how the tasteless and odorless nicotine in a bottle of water gets noticed.

Obviously arsenic is a ridiculous idea, as is the fact that you would just lose business. But both extremes averaged out kind of make the middle ground.

[wufwugy]

Obviously arsenic is a ridiculous idea, as is the fact that you would just lose business. But both extremes averaged out kind of make the middle ground.

Actually, arsenic is a very normal example. Egregious production practices causing enormous havoc and not costing the businesses much is very common.

Look at milk pasteurization for example. Raw milk was killing a lot of people, but everybody still wanted it, and it was only until the taxpayer funded government hired some scientists and regulators to fix the problem. Not only did the consumers not punish the businesses for poor dairy production practices, but even today, many consumers are trying to return to that era of lethal milk

Consumers are not some kind of logical equalizer. We already know for a fact that businesses get away with so many forms of extreme levels of destruction when unhindered by governing bodies represented by and for the public

[CoccoBill]

Obviously arsenic is a ridiculous idea, as is the fact that you would just lose business. But both extremes averaged out kind of make the middle ground.

NRDC: Arsenic in Drinking Water

[Lukie]

cliffs notes: the government should and does (to an extent) protect us from dangerous contaminants and pollutants and such.

this isn't particularly groundbreaking stuff here.