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An actual arrest seems wildly disproportionate for this. Simple administrative fines should have been enough
by autoexecbat 2y ago
An actual arrest seems wildly disproportionate for this. Simple administrative fines should have been enough
- snapplebobapple 2y agoEven fines seem wildly disproportionate. Its one thing to regulate how one interacts with the gocernment, it is quite a lot less appropriate for government to regulate private transactions when the validity is easily and cheaply verifiable by either party.
- outop 2y agoRegulating weights and measures is a basic function of government since Babylonian times.
- randombits0 2y agoSure but dictating what units to use is a bit overboard. A pound should be a pound and a kilo a kilo but what units I use in commerce is my business, not the state’s.
- autoexecbat 2y agoWhile a kilogram is kilogram, a pound has an accepted definition and plenty of unexpected ones. Is it a troy pound, a tower pound, a london pound, a metric pound?
- informedDissent 2y ago[dead]
- surgical_fire 2y agoOne of the main roles of governments is regulating private transactions. Also, he should have done what every supermarket does around here and sell bananas at a flat price per bunch.
- informedDissent 2y ago[dead]