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?
This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for the week of July 9th. It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:
Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.
Thanks to everyone who contributes!
Academian put up a wiki page with links to the prior May and June threads for reference. Good idea, thanks!