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Ok I get the argument, and like I said "yes its possible with great discipline", but I'll again reiterate: the reason we have a problem isn't "stupid lazy peopl
by program_whiz 6y ago
Ok I get the argument, and like I said "yes its possible with great discipline", but I'll again reiterate: the reason we have a problem isn't "stupid lazy people", its a matter of influences. I get that you are probably more evolved and its so easy -- but then again if you had been raised on a steady diet of targeted misinformation to shape your brain and fed a constant diet of food engineered to maximize tastes and addictive behavior, it might not be so easy to just "eat an apple" or at least that's what the scientific evidence, and piles of cash the industry is stacking up suggests.
Its a bit like taking someone with a gambling addiction and saying "its so easy, just understand gambling is a fallacy and you can walk away anytime", or "why not just have fun with something else?" -- the casino is designed to exploit human biases and mental weaknesses for an especially vulnerable population. If those biases and weaknesses were simple misunderstandings, they wouldn't be powerful enough to form those addictions, and casinos would probably be much smaller and less successful.
- bonoboTP 6y agoBan junk food sale in schools. No vending machines, no advertisement, etc. No snacks, candies. Ban colorful attractive marketing to kids, teach basic nutrition in school. Make school lunch easy to afford, perhaps free and put limits on sugar, salt etc. No pizza and fries, but proper cooked meals. If you don't eat it, you can't get anything else. Buuut freedom, companies, free markets, economic growth!! Parents would be outraged, kids wouldn't eat it etc. Good luck.