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Honestly, we should just outright ban soda. It's a colossal deadweight dragging down our healthcare system, it's nutritionally pointless, and it's not addictive
by koboll 8y ago
Honestly, we should just outright ban soda. It's a colossal deadweight dragging down our healthcare system, it's nutritionally pointless, and it's not addictive enough to be worth trafficking.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI wonder how the cost would change if we got rid of sugar subsidies.
- terandle 8y agoYou could say that about a lot of the crap in a supermarket. Twinkies, ice cream. I don’t get why soda has become demonized over those.
- superkuh 8y agoYou shouldn't advocate for violence against people just because they have different tastes than you. It's usually socially unacceptable or against the rules.
- cimmanom 8y agoHow the hell is that advocating violence?
- CryptoPunk 8y agoThe force of law comes from the threat of violence against those found not in compliance. If someone is not violating another party's rights, there's no moral justification for subjecting them to violence.
- superkuh 8y agoYep. People like cimmanom justify that violence by arguing that if people use shared resources to support their non-optimal health choices they're violating other people's rights indirectly. This is an absurd view but very common. They often don't see it as advocating violence because the government has a monopoly on the use of force. But they really need to ask themselves if the damage done by government violence might very well be greater than the damage done by non-optimal health choices and potential future use of a share resource. Or maybe they're just authoritarians and believe the government owns the people for the greater good.
- koboll 8y agoIt's not about tastes, it's about heathcare costs in a system where medicine is partly (and will likely one day be mostly or fully) socialized. A casual stroll through a high-foot-traffic part of a low-income area in America makes starkly clear the absolute catastrophe sugar is wreaking on society.
- anon12341234 8y agoHonestly, it shouldn't even be legal to eat anything other than broccoli and chicken breast. Everything is filled with fat and sugar and just drags our healthcare system down.
- cft 8y agoIt becomes a "system" when it stops being a marketplace. Then those systems are ruled by socialist directives. USSR had no Coke either.
- xxpor 8y agoThen we should have become the USSR when they banned original Four Loko ~7 years ago. Oh wait.
- Iwan-Zotow 8y agoWell, had Pepsi
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