The point isn't that cancer doesn't matter. It's that by putting cancer warnings on things with a 1-in-a-trillion lifetime chance of causing cancer, you desensitize people to cancer warnings on things that actually do pose a significant cancer risk.
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Yup. The joke around here is that 'everything causes cancer in California'. Nobody takes those labels seriously because they're on everything and give 0 indication of risk level compared to other items with the same label.
It's just another example of feel-good legislation that does more harm than good.
It’s an example of well intentioned legislation poorly implemented.
Name one piece of modern legislation that isn't regarded as "well intentioned" by those passing it.
I guess I am judging the intentions of those passing it, not reflecting how they would judge their own intentions.
There is a whole philosophical bent about what "good" intentions might be which is way off topic.
Reminds me of a similar observation with drug side-effects on WebMD: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...
When the side effects for ibuprofen read similarly to those of far more dangerous prescription drugs, then they're really not helpful