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Why is there a limit to the number of boxes of paracetamol you can buy in a single transaction?
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comes to mind, although I'm not sure if this is a law or just some stupid rule at the store you went to.
It's a law, and it's to limit opportunist suicide overdose attempts.
Also, it's not the law I broke. I committed an act of theft because I wasn't prepared to go through the inconvenience imposed caused by the supermarket complying with the analgesic sale law.
You're right, the law applies to the seller of the item, not to the purchaser.
If you consider the limit on boxes of paracetamol to be a bad law, the store owners should disobey the law and sell them to you anyway.
Is there a good argument for limiting the number of opportunist suicide overdose attempts? Are these kinds of laws effective? Aren't there almost infinite other ways you could kill yourself that aren't prevented by this law?
Another entry for the rationality diary: today I realised I'm not obliged to enter discussions just because I wrote the parent comment they spin off from.
Sorry, but I'm not especially interested in talking about any of these things, and they don't have any bearing on my original comment.
No one is obliged to enter any discussion ever, as far as I know.
My questions were mostly rhetorical; thinking out loud so to speak.
Regardless, I assume you were trying to be sensitive to my feelings with your apology, so, I appreciate your tact.