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>To assert otherwise is not only cruelly ideological, but utterly unscientific. Your argument is: Obese people need saving, we should pass laws to limit their
by DINKDINK 9y ago
>To assert otherwise is not only cruelly ideological, but utterly unscientific.
Your argument is: Obese people need saving, we should pass laws to limit their choices so that they're not so obese. Do you have any evidence that obese people want their choices taken away from them? Should people not have the right to make choices about how their body is?
Claiming that you don't think the government should be in the business of controlling what people do to their own bodies is consistent with being pro drug-use decriminalization/(anti prohibition), pro euthanasia rights, pro abortion rights.
What 'bad' behaviors do you have that the government should tell you how to live your life?
- zyx321 9y agoWhat about regulating what corporations to reduce the constant pressure pushing people to make bad decisions? The UK has banned junk food ads in or around content targeted at children. New York tried to regulate soda sizes, which would have forced companies to rebrand their 'XXL' sizes as '3 servings' if it had passed. Maybe I'm naive, but I do believe that many people would make better choices, were they better informed.