OT? It bears on "insulting consumers' intelligence", which is being discussed in relationship to pharmacy practices, but which bears on every aspect of our society.
Decades ago, I had a very indirect connection to an event which led not only to all sorts of warning labels and stickers, but also to the "safety" devices which plague our power lawnmowers to this day. A man had decided that, if he could just lift his lawnmower to the appropriate height, it would make an excellent device for clipping the top of his hedge perfectly flat. Naturally, he lost some fingers and, if I remember right, some foot part(s) as well (since he dropped the mower). A friend of mine, in the service of a university fulfilling a government grant, interviewed him, and he was very sheepish and embarrassed about the whole thing, realizing in retrospect how thoughtless and ridiculous his action had been, but of course, that did not restore his missing body parts.
I think about this guy (who presumably joined the feathered choir years ago, making his predicament fair game for discussion) frequently, as when I read "Do not mail matches" printed on a matchbook, or the warning label "This is not a step" on the work tray of my stepladder. As a wag once said, "Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools." Since we now live in a state of eagerness to assign "accountability" to almost anyone other than the fool who causes an accident, it's natural that most cautionary directions have become bluntly insulting to one's intelligence (and probably ineffective as regards those who have none).
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