To echo KR’s comment. Buying and eating food that’s not bad for you, and toys that won’t hurt your kids seems like common-sense. Not selling toys that hurt kids is just morally right. I don’t see how we address immorality with regulation. All regulation seems to do is provide incentive to be more deceitful, more crafty and clever, and better and finding ways around the rules. Someone determined to sell toxic toys to kids is already being unethical; regulation just makes them sneakier.
Common-sense, transparency, and open markets seem to have a better track-record at addressing these things. I say “seem” because I don’t know the answer 100%, but neither do the proponents of regulation. I’m willing to draw conclusions based on evidence. Can they say the same?
