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Your prescribed initiative to improve the lives of poor people is to remove one of the few cheap pleasures available to them? I think many people here understa
by ahelwer 7y ago
Your prescribed initiative to improve the lives of poor people is to remove one of the few cheap pleasures available to them?
I think many people here understand how stress and mood inform eating habits. Who among us has not indulged after a particularly bad day? Now imagine that bad day was every day, and you don't have the money, time, and energy to drown your feelings with healthier activities like strenuous exercise.
The best way to improve the lives of poor people is to give them money. Enough with this know-better-than-thou ban & incentize crap. Poor people get jerked around enough already.
- silvestrov 7y agoWhen that "pleasure" ends up making peoples live a lot worse, then yes I do want to remove it. If we were never to take away pleasures no matter their consequences, you could just as well legalize "the Russian Krokodil" (don't google images that).
- ahelwer 7y agoIt may amaze you to learn the world is not a binary between "legalize krokodil" and "ban sugary drinks".