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by SV_BubbleTime 910 days ago
The subtext of your argument is that you think you can legislate away human behavior.

There is a cheap process to make meth, and there’s another process that involves Sudafed. Banning Sudafed does not stop meth production. But here you are still supporting a ban on Sudafed - because of what some theoretical person might do with it ignoring that they’re doing it now without it.

I don’t believe this is a logical failure, I believe whatever culture you grew up in imparted this way of thinking.

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The culture I grew up in is one where this happened about once a month. Well, before Sudafed became hard to get. Then the rate of it occuring dropped precipitously.

It's almost like people in fact do base their choices on what's easily available.