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It's not the same thing as stockpiling a year ago wouldn't have caused a shortage.

So why is the crime the same for both people? Also, if he didn't plan on selling the sanitizer then we wouldn't have any (legal) problem with his actions. You can buy all you want with no consequence.

Well the (in my opinion flawed) idea is to remove the incentive for buying that much in the first place.

Say what you want, but someone receiving this enormous an amount of social shaming on top of a painful economic loss, sure is going to disincentivise people from pulling similar stunts in the future.

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