What is the point of listing all the ingredients in packaged food products if they’re not necessarily harmful?
Because, as in the ingredients list, the public’s right to know what they are putting in their pie-hole requires a mandate, and except in special cases it’s usually difficult to mandate a declaration of absence. I don’t have a single food item that confidently assures me that it “does not contain rat poison” and is “100% plutonium-free”.
I agree completely, though ignorance does tend to gravitate to the better known, better looking, better hair, etc. But on the ignorance thing, I was responding to the poster who had said “Nothing tells me a person has amateurish half-baked political ideas like an insistence that the only explanation for disagreeing opinions is ignorance.” And my point was – and thank you for endorsing it – that while ignorance is rarely the only explanation for political choices, it’s a very prevalent one.