ext_85184 ([identity profile] oslo.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] politicartoons 2014-04-30 11:56 pm (UTC)

Begging the question, circular logic. blah blah blah. Paternalistic like Oslo suggested.

Yes - this seems roughly where, in Jeff's thinking, we've reached the root level. There's really no way we're going to be able to get him to see that his judgment about what information is "necessary" on a label - to the extent he deigns to allow that mandatory labeling might be appropriate - necessarily incorporates an evaluative framework that he takes to be simply self-evident.

It would take hundreds of words to explain, and all of it would just go over his head. What's "necessary" on a box of aspirin, say? Doesn't the notion of necessity contemplate some range of intended uses? So don't we have to make some judgment about the relation of a product to its use, as well as its user?

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