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		hedora on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ ... It depends. That’s the point. In the past, machinery didn’t have covers over what are now internal moving parts. The law changed that.

emodendroket on July 13, 2023 [–]

Yes but some tools which are useful and important are inherently dangerous to oneself or others. There is only so much you can do to make them safer before you have to make the operator assume responsibility for using them properly.

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