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> If somebody is fraudulently selling snake oil then prove it transparently in court. I'd rather not live in a society where it takes hundreds, thousands or mi
by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> If somebody is fraudulently selling snake oil then prove it transparently in court.
I'd rather not live in a society where it takes hundreds, thousands or millions of people becoming sick, injured or dead to eventually bring a class action lawsuit against an entity that was allowed to openly sell snake oil to sick and desperate people for long periods of time.
> If somebody is using heroin then its none of your business.
It's society's business when a drug with a relatively low LD50 that has fatal interactions with alcohol and many common prescription drugs is sold on drug store shelves as a panacea.
Again, we tried this and got Radithor[1] and children's laudanum[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
[2] https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WckzzigAACe3DJPD https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WckzzigAACe3DJPD