Saying “People who buy dangerous products deserve to get hurt!” is not tough-minded. It is a way of refusing to live in an unfair universe. Real tough-mindedness is saying, “Yes, sulfuric acid is a horrible painful death, and no, that mother of five children didn’t deserve it, but we’re going to keep the shops open anyway because we did this cost-benefit calculation.” Can you imagine a politician saying that? Neither can I.
There’s another reason to say the former rather than the latter. Most people will hear the latter this way:
“Yes, sulfuric acid is a horrible painful death …”
There’s another reason to say the former rather than the latter. Most people will hear the latter this way:
“Yes, sulfuric acid is a horrible painful death …”
“TLDR. Okay, you’re for regulation.”