Visit any garden department of any DIY and you will find shelves and shelves of poison. Head over to the plumbing department and you can find straight lye and other corrosives. All with the power to kill.
We can allow justification of banning any thing we desire - or justify its existence in the face of logic. Its not just over the counter meds, its thousands of products we live with every single day. There is no real challenge to finding everyday objects that have the potential to kill, instantaneously or slowly and hideously.
Electrical outlets, ungrounded wiring, the aforementioned poisons, guns, glass, plastic bags, drapery cords, every small part that can lodge in the throat....
There is NO difference. It is only in perception. We have learned how to safely handle these things and in doing so we have minimized the dangers in our minds just as we have minimized the dangers in our homes But the logic that one potential killer is worse than another is simply flawed. Dead is dead no matter what caused the death. Dead is forever.
We can allow justification of banning any thing we desire - or justify its existence in the face of logic. Its not just over the counter meds, its thousands of products we live with every single day. There is no real challenge to finding everyday objects that have the potential to kill, instantaneously or slowly and hideously.
Electrical outlets, ungrounded wiring, the aforementioned poisons, guns, glass, plastic bags, drapery cords, every small part that can lodge in the throat....
There is NO difference. It is only in perception. We have learned how to safely handle these things and in doing so we have minimized the dangers in our minds just as we have minimized the dangers in our homes But the logic that one potential killer is worse than another is simply flawed. Dead is dead no matter what caused the death. Dead is forever.