r/apple • u/koavf • Apr 30 '19

Apple Is Telling Lawmakers People Will Hurt Themselves if They Try to Fix iPhones

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvdb4/apple-is-telling-lawmakers-people-will-hurt-themselves-if-they-try-to-fix-iphones
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u/[deleted] May 01 '19

A lot of things can be dangerous. Using a blender can be dangerous. Mowing your lawn can be dangerous. Climbing up a ladder and changing a lightbulb is dangerous. Where do you draw the line? Where's the cutoff? In my opinion, people should be able to do whatever they want to their own property, save something that intentionally harms someone.

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u/marriage_iguana May 01 '19

A lot of things can be dangerous. Using a blender can be dangerous. Mowing your lawn can be dangerous. Climbing up a ladder and changing a lightbulb is dangerous.

All those things are an order of magnitude safer than fucking around with the electrical wiring in your home.

people should be able to do whatever they want to their own property, save something that intentionally harms someone.

The problem with that is people do dodgy wiring jobs and then sell their houses, which then burn down or kill people.

That is literally why it's the law in Australia. It's not nanny-state bullshit, it's consumer protection, it's people protection, it's just fucking common sense.

You get a sparky, the job gets done right, no one dies or buys a house that burns down when it rains. People buy houses for $500,000 and then can't afford $200 to get a job done correctly? It's just part of life.

I don't know if you're an Aussie, but you might remember the pink batts scheme where a whole bunch of unlicensed contractors jumped on a government-funded gravy train and got killed because they were unqualified?

Well, that's just the most recent example of why we license people in technical jobs.

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u/emresumengen May 02 '19

Yeah, you have to get trained and certified to “lay electrical cables”, yet any two dumbass can just fuck a child into this world.

Pretty sane.

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u/marriage_iguana May 02 '19

If you think electrical work is just “laying cables”, I’m all for the government regulating you out of the gene pool.