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An actual arrest seems wildly disproportionate for this. Simple administrative fines should have been enough

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.

Regulating weights and measures is a basic function of government since Babylonian times.

Sure 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.

While 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?

One 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.

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