Laws, labels, and directions are put in place to keep us safe. They are helpful in our daily lives to speed things up, and give us less trips to the hospital. However, some warning labels go a bit too far and don’t even allow us the use of good old common sense. Such as, the warning label on an air conditioner says: Caution, avoid dropping air conditioner out of windows. Or, an iron’s warning label reads: Warning, never iron clothes on the body. Warnings like this are unnecessary and just plain annoying. Some go even farther to say things like, on a bottle of toilet cleaner, the warning label says: Safe to use around pets and children, although it is not recommended that either be permitted to drink from the toilet. Some strollers have illustrations that depict the message: don’t shut your children in this stroller. Such warnings are an insult to Americans everywhere. That is why we must put an end to them.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Insulting Warning Labels
Laws, labels, and directions are put in place to keep us safe. They are helpful in our daily lives to speed things up, and give us less trips to the hospital. However, some warning labels go a bit too far and don’t even allow us the use of good old common sense. Such as, the warning label on an air conditioner says: Caution, avoid dropping air conditioner out of windows. Or, an iron’s warning label reads: Warning, never iron clothes on the body. Warnings like this are unnecessary and just plain annoying. Some go even farther to say things like, on a bottle of toilet cleaner, the warning label says: Safe to use around pets and children, although it is not recommended that either be permitted to drink from the toilet. Some strollers have illustrations that depict the message: don’t shut your children in this stroller. Such warnings are an insult to Americans everywhere. That is why we must put an end to them.
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