I think the point of the paracetamol limit is simply to lessen the chance of someone having a fatal dose amount in their house.
Exactly that. Perhaps not ideally framed, but well intended. Everything has a reason.
Exactly this.
More than well intended it has significantly reduced suicide via paracetamol overdose since its introduction
Yup. It is easy to just say things are "stupid", but eveything is done for a reason, & sometimes it's worth investing a little thought into the "I wonder why?" area. To be fair, when I was a young man, I thought knew everything, & may well have expressed a similar view.
I get shoals of communications saying we do stuff ridiculously badly, "stupidly" or whatever, next door. And I guess we do sometimes, like the complainers, we ain't perfect.
One wrote & called me a "complete moron" (thanks mate), because we had "Happy Hour" promotion (double cash for points sort of thing) at the wrong hours of the day. I wrote & asked him how he came to that conclusion, & I confess I did so a little tongue in cheek. He replied - "
cos u do it wen the sight is at it's quitest".
I did not have the heart to explain the teeny weeny flaw in his thought process.
I do think it is too easy just to say things are "stupid", negativity is so much easier than putting a positive spin on things.
I also think that maybe I should not post such contrary views early in the morning, when my grumpy-meter is set to max.
I'll get me coat.
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