>It is better if it is more difficult to buy them. Kinda like hi-powered lasers. Would you want 500mW lasers being sold at the corner store?
I get you now. I'm still not sure where I stand on the idea of "protecting people from themselves" (but in the case of lasers it seems to be "protecting people from idiots").
I think it would be a shame to see magnets become more regulated. It's only a few small steps from "Zen Magnets shut down" to "Customs seizing all tiny magnets in the mail" (I think Australia may be doing that now, though someone should correct me if I'm wrong)
There are plenty of uses for small high-powered magnets. So you can legally buy them. You just can't sell them as playthings.
Australia only bans them if they:
"are marketed by the supplier as, or supplied for use as any of the following:
a toy, game or puzzle (including but not limited to an adult desk toy, an educational toy or game, a toy, game or puzzle for mental stimulation or stress relief)"
That's a weird way of doing it right. So you can buy it if it says "very serious magnet spheres, definitely not a toy, thinking and relieving stress while touching them is absolutely prohibited!" then it's ok, but if it says "adult desk toy for mental stimulation" then it's banned, even though these are exactly the same things and in both cases the seller has zero control over how exactly they are used?
So you know anybody can buy it very easily on different site, and you still applaud shutting down responsible US companies taking all safety precautions including customer education, even though it would not affect availability of the thing you consider harmful in any meaningful way.
I think now I see where War on Drugs comes from. They do the same useless thing all day long, at great cost and great harm to everybody involved, and still somehow believe they're doing good work, despite the evidence screaming in their faces for decades now.
Are you saying you'll buy from China because it's cheaper or that Zen Magnets somehow doesn't deserve to exist?