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I hate how some people are completely fine with making drugs illegal, but when you mention putting some restrictions on food it becomes the end of the world, as
by hanniabu 7y ago
I hate how some people are completely fine with making drugs illegal, but when you mention putting some restrictions on food it becomes the end of the world, as if something edible can't be a drug.
- emsy 7y agoIt makes much more sense to regulate food if you think about it. Taking drugs is more or less a choice. Eating is indispensable. We're wired to favor fat, sweet and salty food. The damage is done by merely following our evolutionary programming. But I don't think this will ever happen in the US, mainly because of the lack of socialized health care.
- izzydata 7y agoPeople have trouble thinking outside of the limited world view that was forced upon them as children. It's much easier to put things into containers in your mind that can't be overlapping.
- wincy 7y agoOn the alternative, I’m both opposed to drugs being illegal and food restrictions. Look at Switzerland and how they’re handling heroin. The US government pushed the lie that fat is bad for you for decades, and everything became sugar laden because of it. If the US eliminated sugar tariffs and corn subsidies, we’d have far less high fructose corn syrup in our diet overnight. They’d also need to stop strong arming public schools into serving all this low fat no taste nonsense. Government intervention got us in this mess, even more regulation by incompetent (or worse, competent) bureaucrats won’t get us out.
- wavepruner 7y agoRight on. The government gets things so so wrong sometimes that they cause massive epidemics much worse than anything they solve. Good Ted Talk on the diabetes epidemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhLBPPtlrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhLBPPtlrY