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Why stop there? We might want to monitor people each day via fitbit like devices that report back the data to ensure everyone is exercising the recommended amou
by Akkuma 11y ago
Why stop there? We might want to monitor people each day via fitbit like devices that report back the data to ensure everyone is exercising the recommended amount. We can then tax or reduce taxes for the applicable individuals.
This could obviously be deemed a bit of a slippery slope fallacy, but I'd argue the above is probably more beneficial than taxing my soda if you truly want to reduce healthcare costs by having healthier individuals. But, who wants to go that far?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoPersonally, I would, if FitBit et al. were actually about health and not about sports-obsessed people bragging about their fitness activities. I definitely wouldn't mind being monitored for health with real-time advice on how to optimize it. As for the bedroom thing, this is a bad kind of slippery slope argument (not all slippery slope arguments are fallacies). It's ignoring the fact that penalizing soda is not a binary +health/-health decision but a complex tradeoff that includes the magnitude of expected gains and the probable sentiment of the public.