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Sure except the book is actually how to hang yourself.
by adamdusty 4y ago
Sure except the book is actually how to hang yourself.
- iancmceachern 4y agoAnd the ripe is pre-tied (this concentration isn't used for food preservation)
- hooverd 4y agoHigh concentration products are nice because you can dilute them as needed without having to keep a ton on hand.
- iancmceachern 4y agoThey also are high concentration hydrogen peroxide that will eat ones arm off. We intentionally don't sell it to the general public at that concentration for safety reasons. It seems that the benefits outweigh the costs in my example and with thebtopic at hand. A bit more convenience for some is not worth the preventable death of others.
- Ekaros 4y agoI'm kinda torn should Amazon be selling high-purity dangerous chemicals or not. On other hand it makes life easy, but on other maybe somethings should have some control in place. That being specialist store who might look at order and give some customer support.
- moistly 4y ago> We intentionally don't sell it to the general public at that concentration for safety reasons We don’t? Then please explain how I have a bottle of 30% H2O2 sitting on my paints & solvents shelf in the garage. I bought it at my local farm & feed shop. No ID, licence, or even proof of farm ownership required. Shit is scary af, but I gotta say it does on hell of a job at cleaning mold and mildew out of my window frames.
- iancmceachern 4y agoExactly my point. Your local farm and feed ship is not a local pharmacy or grocery store. It's a specialty store.
- moistly 4y agoIt’s a store that is open to the general public. You claimed that stores don’t sell it to the general public. Obviously they do, because I walked in off the street and bought it.
- catiopatio 4y ago> A bit more convenience for some is not worth the preventable death of others. Why not? Why should I be inconvenienced because a rounding-error’s worth of people made the choice, of their own free will, to misuse a product to harm themselves? This didn’t happen accidentally. It’s not some kind of attractive nuisance.
- hrbf 4y ago> Why should I be inconvenienced because a rounding-error’s worth of people made the choice, of their own free will, to misuse a product to harm themselves? I guess I’m not surprised that if self-obsessed people lacking nuance and empathy grow in number everywhere that they are also present on HN. Just look at the wording. I’ve noticed them more frequently as of late, in threads regarding war, death and suffering. Furthermore, to claim a severely depressed teenager is a fully-formed person doing something “of their own free will” betrays fundamental ignorance regarding what depression is, as well as how teenagers function.
- fastball 4y ago> Insert Benjamin Franklin quote about sacrificing liberty for safety here.
- hrbf 4y agoSo providing an effective means of protecting depressed non-adults from the frictionless purchase of above-laboratory strength chemicals to potentially kill themselves by as trivial a measure as verifying age on delivery is somehow infringing on your liberty. Got it.
- catiopatio 4y agoYes, it very clearly is, and the fact that you think age verification on delivery is “trivial” is alarming and depressing.
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- adrianN 4y agoI bought a kilogram of pure NaOH from Amazon to make soap with no questions asked. That will also eat my arm off. We don't sell peroxides because they can be used to make explosives.
- iancmceachern 4y agoCan't soap making supplies also be used to make explosives? I learned that in Fight Club.
- fastball 4y agoWhich "how to kill yourself with Sodium Nitrate" book is Amazon selling?
- some_random 4y agoPer the complaint[1], it's "The Peaceful Pill" by Dr. Philip Nitschke [1] 85, https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/McCarthy-et-al-v-Amazon-Complaint.pdf https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/McCar...