today in drug war: piperidine (a useful chemical) is scheduled because it's used in production of PCP (a shitty dissociative). naturally, the former is hard to obtain and the latter is widely available, so i've realized that if you needed piperidine you could make it from PCP
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Why can't you get it, don't you have a reason to use it that is considered legitimate? After all it is the starting point for a lot of compounds, not just PCP. I think my point still stands about the ban being a good filter for only stopping dangerous fools.
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because precursor laws are stupid. technically, even conc sulfuric is scheduled over here, not that you can *actually* prevent its sale
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Again it only acts as a filter to the dangerously stupid, how is that any different from getting a gun or being able to drive a car or fly aircraft or be a Dr.? It is all about filters to reduce the number of fools doing stupid or dangerous things that could harm other people.
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because unlike (say) a driver license it doesn't actually make any sense. NaOH is in some ways more dangerous than H2SO4(conc) but you can get that in any amount. you can buy methylamine by the barrel here without so much as providing ID either. etc
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red P? sure. conc H2O2? cheaper by the barrel. hydrazine? as much as you want by mail order. H2SO4 is a no-no though can't have people messing with that
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Again that only acts as a filter for dangerously stupid people, you want the others blocked as well? Or all available, what about nuclear materials? So I can run my house electricity generator off a stirling engine using the heat from a big lump of plutonium, and no CO2 produced!
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you're arguing with a strawman
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No because I really could do useful stuff with nuclear materials and not that far from where I am there is a lot of thorium etc. Also you can't claim the use of a fallacy without logically demonstrating why it is, otherwise the only proven fallacy is your claim.
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