Thursday, August 18, 2022

Should everything that can potentially kill be banned?

If something is bad for our health, it should be banned. Right? So US legislators were right when they banned lawn darts after a child got seriously hurt by one of those large darts. And children could suffocate on the little plastic toys in Kinder Surprise Eggs so they are rightfully banned too. Same goes for drugs: people can actually die from using drugs so it's good to ban them! Right?

Accept when the drug is called alcohol or is one of many prescription drugs. Although alcohol and prescription drugs are often highly addictive and kill millions of people a year. And nobody ever died from an overdose of maijuana but weed is a drug so it's good that it's banned. Because banning dangerous things really helps. Except when that dangerous thing is a gun. In that case banning won't help because criminals will get their hands on them anyway.

If more people would have a gun there would be less shootings. Right? So, if everyone could easily get a Kinder Surprise Egg, less kids would swallow the little plastic toy and if drugs were more readily available there would be less addicts and less people dying from an overdose. That's only logical.
The government should never interfere and protect people from dangers by interfering.

When you ask people if they would support a ban on a substance that can (potentially) kill, most of them agree. Even when that substance is water:



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