ISO 21482, the last ditch warning symbol that should only *ever* be seen if someone is literally elbows-deep in disassembling a radiation source, is kind of throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks. Do you think it communicates "no you can't even use it to murder that guy"

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"This is dangerous, it's wildly more dangerous than you think, it's so dangerous you can't even use it to poison that guy you hate" is a *very* tall order.

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You somehow have to communicate that it's dangerous, which *itself* is a very hard problem, and then that it is shockingly more dangerous than they might think. *Even if* no malicious intent is there, a Goiania can still happen.

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Even if you successfully communicate "this stuff is fucking dangerous, stay away from it" you've not really managed to communicate just *how* dangerous it is. For all you know, someone finds it and is like "oh hell yeah I will put some in my husband's soup tonight"

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You somehow communicate, miraculously, "this stuff will fucking kill you, stay away" and they conclude hell yeah, I can poison that annoying coworker who sucks. Which ends up contaminating literally the entire goddamn neighborhood and 100,000+ people etc

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