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It's a symtom of a larger problem[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Mon Apr 24, 2006 at 09:05:59 AM PDT

The blister-packs as theft prevention is just one more example of how honest people are constantly forced to compensate for the dishonest/greedy/criminal people in our society. Some other examples:

DRM - Honest people get burned by defective software DRM. Pirates have no issues.

Insurance - Fraud forces rates higher. I think it's much worse than we are told.

Airport security - No need to explain that one.

Video surveillance - Loss of privacy for everyone just to catch a few criminals.

Other tamper prevention devices - Remember when food containers did not have tons of protective seals? Now we live with this to avoid getting poisoned. (This seeemed to start with the Tylenol murders.)

The fear of liability lawsuits has forced a whole related set of changes on our society which is a world unto itself.

I'm sure there are many other examples I can't think of at the moment.

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