What is the practical benefit of a back yard pool (drowning apparatus), beer stein (poisoning apparatus), or a sports car (trauma apparatus)?
[I assume this must be a troll, since if this were taken to its logical conclusion, it advocates a Soviet style command and control society. No laughing, smiling, or running with scissors allowed.]
Your slippery-slope approach is fatuous. It is a completely nihilistic approach to any sort of legal system that involves regulations and penalties for breaking them.
It is a completely fair point to ask where on the realm of regulated toys buckyball-style magnets fall. Someone doesn't have to be a troll just because they disagree with you.
Also, what is with your last sentence? Are you suggesting that not allowing running with scissors is indicative of creeping authoritarianism? You would have been disappointed with every teacher I had, then.
edit: thanks for the downvotes. A useful reminder to me to never discuss anything with libertarians.
[I assume this must be a troll, since if this were taken to its logical conclusion, it advocates a Soviet style command and control society. No laughing, smiling, or running with scissors allowed.]