Yes, contact lenses are medical devices that needs to be regulated. Imagine if you bought contacts from Amazon, received a counterfeit batch, and it wrecked your vision? Who could you even sue?
These laws protect you the consumer. I am sorry you are inconvenienced.
Alcohol abuse is the third largest preventable cause of death in the US and the death rate has doubled in the last 20 years. Kills on average 88,000 people per year in the US. Liquor licensing is one of the few tools we have to protect us.
> Imagine if you bought contacts from Amazon, received a counterfeit batch, and it wrecked your vision? Who could you even sue?
The same entity I would sue if I was damaged by any other product that was unfit for purpose: the dealer and/or manufacturer who sold the faulty goods.
Your argument doesn't really hold up with that example.
Alcohol abuse, drunk driving aside, doesn't directly physically harm anyone who doesn't fully consent to the effects of alcohol in their body. You're fine to believe that people shouldn't drink, or shouldn't drink as much as they do: I even agree with you.
You're not fine to think that people should use the threat of violence (police/regulation enforcement) against people who would peacefully sell alcohol to consenting adults who wish to buy it.
Yes, contact lenses are medical devices that needs to be regulated. Imagine if you bought contacts from Amazon, received a counterfeit batch, and it wrecked your vision? Who could you even sue?
These laws protect you the consumer. I am sorry you are inconvenienced.
Alcohol abuse is the third largest preventable cause of death in the US and the death rate has doubled in the last 20 years. Kills on average 88,000 people per year in the US. Liquor licensing is one of the few tools we have to protect us.
We need to sober up.