IdentityDoe
What is freedom when demanded of you by a god?
- Jan 14, 2026
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There's something called the "Youth Poisoning Protection Act" (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1442/text) in the USA that aims to ban products with a high concentration of Sodium Nitrite (>10%) to Individuals. This came about after a bunch of young people bought SN through amazon (when it was still easy to get) and unfortunately ended their lives with it. Their parents obviously were furious about this and brought the matter to a legal standpoint leading to this act to be considered. The problem with all of that is... compared to many other methods of CTB, SN and similar chemicals (Potassium Cyanide, Sodium Azide etc...) have a very low purchase to death rate when put side by side to other methods.
Guns kill more people but they aren't banned? Why not? Second Amendment??? Can SN kill 3 people at once in seconds? If not why ban SN? It just looks like people over-react the moment some new "Poison" starts getting used, even though SN inherently has some other uses that aren't poisoning people (funnily enough it's also a treatment for cyanide poisoning).
The problem with banning stuff left and right is eventually, it'll reach a point where all non painful methods are completely unavailable for average people to buy... If you don't work for a business that uses those chemicals you're essentially screwed and have to rely on stuff that will give you brain or bodily damage... Do they want people to drink bleach and rat poison? (because that's a much better way to die right!?)... Do you want to know that your loved one died a horrific death rather than a relatively peaceful one? I don't understand the logic behind that. If you ban one thing they'll just use whatever else they can get their hands on, and that level of desperation is what creates dangerous situations.
I also personally believe that companies like Amazon and individual sellers who sell chemicals without coaching someone into CTB, shouldn't be held liable by what other people choose to do with them. If you go out of your way to buy SN and use it, those are still your actions, and the parents of these people (especially the adult "victims" over 20 years old) shouldn't blame others for what the chemical their child bought did. If someone shot up a school with a gun we wouldn't be saying "arrest the person that sold them the gun" we would be blaming the person that shot and killed innocent people because their actions led to other peoples deaths. So why is it different when it comes to CTB of adults where they are treated as if they don't know what they want and evil Amazon has to be sued for selling them poison?
Guns kill more people but they aren't banned? Why not? Second Amendment??? Can SN kill 3 people at once in seconds? If not why ban SN? It just looks like people over-react the moment some new "Poison" starts getting used, even though SN inherently has some other uses that aren't poisoning people (funnily enough it's also a treatment for cyanide poisoning).
The problem with banning stuff left and right is eventually, it'll reach a point where all non painful methods are completely unavailable for average people to buy... If you don't work for a business that uses those chemicals you're essentially screwed and have to rely on stuff that will give you brain or bodily damage... Do they want people to drink bleach and rat poison? (because that's a much better way to die right!?)... Do you want to know that your loved one died a horrific death rather than a relatively peaceful one? I don't understand the logic behind that. If you ban one thing they'll just use whatever else they can get their hands on, and that level of desperation is what creates dangerous situations.
I also personally believe that companies like Amazon and individual sellers who sell chemicals without coaching someone into CTB, shouldn't be held liable by what other people choose to do with them. If you go out of your way to buy SN and use it, those are still your actions, and the parents of these people (especially the adult "victims" over 20 years old) shouldn't blame others for what the chemical their child bought did. If someone shot up a school with a gun we wouldn't be saying "arrest the person that sold them the gun" we would be blaming the person that shot and killed innocent people because their actions led to other peoples deaths. So why is it different when it comes to CTB of adults where they are treated as if they don't know what they want and evil Amazon has to be sued for selling them poison?
