&gt;Yes, but your (or y&#x27;all&#x27;s) collective decision that you prefer safety to freedom shouldn&#x27;t infringe upon my choice to prefer freedom to safety.<p>I would also remind you that no classical libertarian(IE: John Locke) would allow you to go kill someone, and would say the state can and should have the power to regulate you to prevent you from doing so.<p>So I would equally assume that in no way shape or form Locke would be ok with you dumping Trichloroethylene willy-nilly.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3228569&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3228569&#x2F;</a><p>Unless of course you think it is ok to give someone kidney cancer and not tell them?<p>(Dumping tricholorethlyene willy nilly makes a super-fund site.  It takes years for cancer clusters to clear out as they get cleaned up.  The one in Mountain View related to chip manufacture has only within the past year or so stopped causing cancer clusters en mass.  Most of the silicon valley superfund sites come from TCE, and were declared as such around 1988.<p>Though even today the EPA is cautious - people have seen TCE plumes in the Valley that still cause problems <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paloaltoonline.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;discovery-of-toxic-chemical-prompts-changes-in-stanfords-housing-project" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paloaltoonline.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;discovery-of-t...</a><p>We&#x27;re close to our 30th year of cleaning this stuff up.  It is totally possible, and even probable, that if a pluse&#x2F;area is massively disturbed, TCE will leach en mass into nearby people causing new cancer clusters, among other issues)<p>I can extend this logic easily to the Food and Drug Act and its amendments - which is why it is terrible to find out that the 5 largest producers of chicken in the US allow people to pee and poop on themselves on the killing floor, because in chicken slaughterhouses, you aren&#x27;t allowed to have bathroom breaks.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;681025&#x2F;big-poultry-workers-are-literally-peeing-their-pants-so-that-americans-can-have-cheap-chicken&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;681025&#x2F;big-poultry-workers-are-literally-peein...</a><p>Unless you think it is ok for you to potentially eat someone&#x27;s very dangerous e. coli and salmonella from their asses because you want freedom?<p>(I assume, and hope not)<p>It&#x27;s not a freedom if it kills you.