They 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.
> 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.
It’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.
I'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.
> 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.
> 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.
I 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.