That's not relevant. You can't just string up the whole government for the actions of one sector. If you want to nail the shit out of them, use better means then making a lump sum out of a giant ass group with a complex hierarchy.
Not defending them, but you're making a bad case and that hurts the point you're trying to make.
Tell us exactly how you'd enforce that to ensure that the whole of a country would "parent their kids". How exactly do you ensure that? You can't without getting the government involved in private family affairs. If you want change you have it. This is one way to prevent circulation amoung children, and the method you're suggesting could cause more harm then good.
Education is another matter, but that takes years to implement, and could be used alongside the ban to educate a generation about the dangers of the product, but without enforcement the product will still be used.
Do you want a half-measure that wastes money? Or do you want to get the problem solved? Or is it even a problem? That's what the questions here are. That said, the fact that they're making a stink about this seems like a distraction, there ARE bigger problems and this one isn't causing a chain of them like them. And that's the context we have to consider here, whether or not it's actually a problem and figuring out what exactly the ban entails.
Is it banning Energy Drinks or medical stimulants? Because those are two very different things. If this is a blanket ban the issue then becomes "why are energy drinks being saddled with stimulants by technicality.
After this you'd have to consider two things, 1. Whether or not the energy drinks are strong enough chemically to be counted as dangerous stimulants that hurt kids and then you can make a desicion
based on the last questions.
Those questions being:
1. "Do these energy drinks have negative medical and/or provable psychological effects on children?"
and
2. "Why should they not be policed if so?"
The main elephant in the room has NOT been addressed here. It's possible that the reason for the ban is BECAUSE the energy drink industry has gotten out of hand. Address this, is it true or not?
IT IS a solution, but a blanket ban is more of a reaction or a patch, when the problem should be examined and regulated if it's actually a problem. The questions you need to ask when a product comes under scrutiny is to examine the product and have provable evidence so that you don't run in a circle talking about the same shit.
For example, the question you could ask is "Is taurine (or whatever chemical present in tons of energy drinks that could be harmful), have a negative impact on the development of children?"
Before people throw a shitfit facts need to be ironed out.
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