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Unregulated anarchy vs nanny state. There's a wide spectrum in between we can argue about, but let's not get too far toward either extreme.
Kinder eggs should NOT be banned, and Americans have an inferior product because of it.
........but also I agree with the banning of Red dye #3.
It's banned in the US because we're sue-crazy. Companies can't rely on the common sense of their customers here. Even if the egg comes with a blinking neon sign that says there's a non edible toy inside, someone would sue (and win!) claiming that it's not enough and the toy shouldn't be there in the first place.
Even if they don't win the case, court cases in general can be extremely costly. So companies will try to avoid getting sued as much as they try to avoid doing things that would actually lose them a lawsuit.
I was about to protest, but grog calls for red dye #2, so we're all good.
The ban is against putting inedible objects inside food. It's a sensible ban imo.
It's a toy. A succulent little toy.
I see you know your judo well.
I live in a place where kinder eggs arent banned and i dont often find rocks inside cheap brownies. Theres a way to have both lol
Without a warning, sure. But they aren't trying to hide that there is something inedible in there. It's not even a "hey, there is a prize inside one of the brownies in this box." It's, "there is something inside this thin chocolate shell. Break it to see what it is."
Most fruit have inedible seeds inside, yet those aren't really an issue. Yes, these are marketed specifically towards children, which could be part of the issue, but it's a bit ridiculous.
As a (social) anarchist, yeah there's a wide range. The government shouldn't tell people what they're allowed to eat, in my opinion, but they should protect them from dangers and exploitation. We don't usually have the tools, or the time, to test all our food to ensure safety. We need government oversight for that. However, they shouldn't go too far beyond that and force us to eat particular things.
In a right wing "anarchy", dangerous foods will appear in the markets all the time.
In a left wing anarchist society, the community would consult their experts on food safety then band together and colletively stop making such foods, and stop importing those from other communities.
That's anarchy? Wow, that's dumb. They should not just collectively decide something. They should write down what they decided so that people who couldn't attend or that later come from outside the community know what has been decided. Or, even better, if I know I can't participate in the decision (or don't want to) I should be able to pass my voice to somebody who's there who I trust. Or, even better, just in case that person spontaneously gets sick or dies, to a group of people. Maybe, to get some consistency with people getting to know the details of the decision making process and the prior decisions, only redistribute these stand in votes every few years or so. Just to get the anarchy organised a bit.
That sounds great!
Wait a minute... That doesn't sound like anarchy... That sounds like democracy!
That's not anarchist at all...
I have to admit I never really understood how anarchist societies were supposed to work. Now that you've pointed out they are just people banding together to make collective decisions based on expert information, I can't fathom why I ever thought they could go wrong.
Simple: they wouldn't work that way.
Left anarchism, like everything left, only works on paper.
Here's a few holes:
Who decides who is and isn't an expert? Jim Jones was considered an expert by the Jonestown people, RFK is considered one by maga.
Assuming we find a way to establish an "expert" category of citizens, that's already hierarchical. You now have a ruling class since these people get more of a say than the average person by virtue of their role, and don't have a completely flat anarchist society anymore but instead a sort of representative technocracy.
Moreover anarchist societies are supposed to not employ coercion, so even if you had experts whose opinion dictates norms, how are you going to enforce them?
Anarchists (left and right) reinvent the state, just shittier, less consistent, and without founding principles, every time they are put in front of the practical needs of a society where not everyone agrees with them.
Some go as far as inventing authoritarian oligarchies, just ones they happen to agree with and thus support.
Sorry, I thought my sarcasm was obvious.
Oh god you have no idea how many believe this in earnest (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
tankies are authoritarian, their "leftism" is just a disguise to obtain power
They are authoritarian and marxist leftists, they are not mutually exclusive, if anything they are more likely bedfellows than not, by necessity.
You can't have a free economy without decentralised price controls (i.e. a market) and you can't have a market without ownership, so you will eventually end up having a control economy if you remove private ownership from the equation, and control economies are fundamentally authoritarian.
The ultimate means of production is the person, and you don't get to own it exclusively, even if it's yourself.
I think some market-based leftists have proposed various solutions for this problem, like mandating that all companies be run as coops. But I'm still skeptical of these for a number of reasons.
That's also a non-solution, all it does is make scaling a company a huge mess, and contractorship basically mandatory for any kind of expansion.
I.e. I don't hire anyone cause they would need to buy into the co-op, or they'd have their surplus value taken and thus be exploited, so instead everyone makes self-employed ""co-ops"" and hires eachother as contracting businesses.
It's literally just capitalism with really stupid centralist extra steps.