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Sadly out of the five friends that I showed my lasers to, not a single one thought "hey this might be dangerous, let's be careful with it". Every single one of them was over the age of 16 at the time of showing them, with some of them being 19. Yet every one of them pointed on either cars, planes, windows or people even after warning them to absolutely not do this. Hell, one of them even pointed the laser directly in his eye, twice in a row. They were like "yeah well, light can't really do anything dangerous let's give it a try". Before I could grab my laser back they had already done what I told them not to do. Luckily this was with a ~30mW laser, but imagine someone doing this with a 1W+ laser.
There are way too many idiots out there that will not follow the rules nor advice given to them no matter how many times you tell them. That's the reason why I can't stand these videos, especially when they reach such a big crowd that accidents are bound to happen.
That's all true, and that experience definitely rings a bell.
It's about there that I programmed myself with a knee-jerk response.
"Can I see that laser?" - "No.". No questions asked. No.
Still, I believe that immediately assuming "Oh no tons of people are going to see a laser in a popular video, so somebody somewhere is going to get hurt" is a rather bad way to go about your day-to-day information processing.
Yeah, somebody somewhere, despite all the warning of the world, all the information available, all the common sense and logic, will get hurt and maybe get in trouble with the police even.
So what? What else is new? This is not limited to lasers, nor any specific video, regardless of the number of subscribers and the audience. If you just get worked up over it, you're going to go insane. Maybe just look at some bright sides, silver linings and all, and forget about it. We're all doing the best we can to provide valid safety information and responsible laser usage guidance, and that's going out of our ways to do it. It's not the video maker's fault, and it's definitely not our fault, so if somebody somewhere points a clearly marked "high powered dangerous laser device" into their eyes, maybe it's, you know, their fault.
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