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Collective rational thought and research to establish a scientific consensus that sugary drinks make you fat and ill knows best.

• microcolonel 8y ago
  > Collective rational thought and research to establish a scientific consensus that sugary drinks make you fat and ill knows best. Collective rational thought also brought us such wonders as eugenics, phrenology... I'm no fan of sugared beverages, nor do I consume them with any regularity, but it isn't my right to tell people they can't enjoy them because some people abuse them. Ordinary people have every option not to buy or keep soda in their house or near them at work; ordinary professional and personal interventions are sufficient to stop people from drinking them. I have met a lot of obese people who avoid soda for its health risks, it is not a sufficient intervention on its own to change most people's dietary issues. Now, if you want to talk about making soda, candy, sweet pastries, and low-value juice from SNAP, that's a different matter. It should not be criminal for me to put sugar in seltzer water and sell it to willing people.
  • apta 8y ago
    > ordinary professional and personal interventions are sufficient to stop people from drinking them. Ostensibly not. Even more evident for people who smoke. Absolutely zero reason to do that, only negative effects. It's wreckless and careless behavior on anyone who allows it.