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gchamonlive ◴[] No.44397333[source]
If you put lemons in a blender and add water it'll produce lemon juice. If you put your hand in a blender however, you'll get a mangled hand. Is this exposing dark tendencies of mangling bodies hidden deep down blenders all across the globe? Or is it just doing what's supposed to be doing?

My point is, we can add all sorts of security measures but at the end of the day nothing is a replacement for user education and intention.

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hiatus ◴[] No.44397460[source]
I disagree. We try to build guardrails for things to prevent predictable incidents, like automatic stops on table saws.
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accrual ◴[] No.44397627[source]
We should definitely have the guardrails. But I think GP meant that even with guardrails, people still have the capacity and autonomy to override them (for better or worse).
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1. Notatheist ◴[] No.44397765[source]
There is a significant distinction between a user mangled by a table saw without a riving knife and a user mangled by a table saw that came with a riving knife that the user removed.