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Comment by rusk

3 months ago

> subjective thing

There is nothing subjective about insulin quality you dimwit

The quality of a product is subjective to the user of that product. This is a scientific fact of economics, and insistence otherwise is science denial.

  • That’s why we have regulation LOL toxicity is not subjective

    Oh Lordy what has become of HN a load of fresh dummies with no grounding in the basic principles of libertarianism. All the fire none of the intellect.

    Just no sport.

    • Sometimes the results of science are unintuitive, but they are facts all the same. The toxicity is an objective feature of the chemical properties of a substance. Whether, to what extent, and how people value such a substance due to its toxicity, and how this plays into their activities which might have assumed its nontoxicity is a subjective matter. The latter is what the manufactuerer is interested in when producing their product; if they consider the former objective fact, it is because the latter subjective evaluation makes the objective fact significant.