[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

A lot probably thinks that the challenge is just that it doesn't taste good. Not that they contain harmful and corrosive substances that could cause major damage to their stomachs. They get the idea that loads of people are doing it and assume that it can't be all that dangerous.

I'm not saying that doing it isn't completely and utterly daft - I'm just taking objection to the idea that a silly 10 or 11 year old deserves to permanently damage themselves or die "for the sake of the gene pool". I mean really.

Yes an adult doing this would be totally on them, but any young person doing something stupid and accidentally harming themself or even killing themself is nothing short of a tragedy. I really can't understand any mindset that would dictate otherwise.

I don't know that changing the coloring on a box would help though. Tide should maybe consider altering the product to look less edible. Because apparently it looks like candy... (I've never seen one)

And yeah, there are some kids who are just too gullible and sometimes it's just a case of their peers make a joke and not realizing just how gullible they really are...

For example, at one of my husband's childhood jobs, some of his coworkers had supposedly joked with one of the others who was tasked to clean the extremely dirty bathroom that if he mixed bleach and ammonia it makes a better cleaner... they assumed he knew you couldn't mix the two. Well, one hospital trip later... he survived, but they never saw him again after that.

And then of course, there's scientists like this who claim you can drink Roundup because it's so safe...

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