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It’s not theoretical. On one side of the ledger we have people dying horrible deaths, on the other side we have people who can’t have vast quantities of paracetamol on hand for no particular reason. If you do in fact need vast quantities of paracetamol for some reason, it can be prescribed.

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The very idea that you should need special permission from some form of officialdom for having access to anything that is very widely useful but in all but a very, very small subset of select cases involving very, very few people who harm only themselves with its misuse is what's genuinely disgusting here.

The vast majority of adults should be able to live in a world where they're not treated like 10-year-old children for seeking a bit of modest pain relief for very common ailments.

I really hope I never find myself living in a society where your perspective dominates. I’d rather we took care of the weak than grumble about such an inconsequential inconvenience.

This attitude is why your society arrests people for mean tweets.

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