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Even 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 r
by snapplebobapple 2y ago
Even 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]