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Would you submit to be guided (by force) away from any suboptimal for your health behavior you might currently engage in?
by willcipriano 3y ago
Would you submit to be guided (by force) away from any suboptimal for your health behavior you might currently engage in?
- throwaway5959 3y agoLosing weight? Absolutely.
- program_whiz 3y agoCitizen 440023423, you are being informed by your friendly government monitoring bot that health studies have shown a link between cancer, obesity, and heart disease by frequent computer and phone users. Your account has been deactivated for 2 weeks. Please engage in the recommended 1 hour of daily outdoor activity instead. In addition, we noticed you exceeded the 15 minutes of allowable phone and computer use, as recommended by experts at the ministry of citizen health. Your internet has been disabled for 1 week. A $25 charge for services has been added to your tax bill. Have a nice healthy day citizen 440023423.
- throwaway5959 3y agoOh thank god, I’ll have so much more free time.
- jmopp 3y agoWhy is it that whenever people suggest any kind of nudge that might be helpful to society, the immediate response is to take it to a totalitarian nightmare. Don't get me wrong; I think the government should leave people alone as much as possible. But jumping straight onto the slippery slope seems like a thought-terminating cliché — rather than leading to an actual discussion about how best to manage individual freedoms while living in a society. (and no, the answer is not "everybody is free to do everything" just as it isn't "nanny state knows best; eat your veggies or else")
- coldtea 3y ago>Why is it that whenever people suggest any kind of nudge that might be helpful to society, the immediate response is to take it to a totalitarian nightmare. Perhaps because those nudges are already a totalitarian nightmare. People should control the government, not the other way around, and definitely not their personal lives and habbits. The prohibition or the "war on drugs" weren't some made up fantasy nightmare, but very real history of a totalitarian nightmare.
- hu3 3y agoWhy wouldn't I?
- program_whiz 3y agoThe government has determined that engaging in online discussions where users disagree increase blood pressure and decreases happiness. Your comment will be deleted and account suspended. You have exceeded your 15 minutes per day of phone and computer use, deemed as the permissible limit by the council for citizen health, your internet account is suspended until next week. This should help you to walk outside. Your tax bill has increased by $16 for processing fees. Thank you citizen, have a nice day.
- willcipriano 3y agoYou enjoy having fun on occasion.
- ipaddr 3y agoBecause experts of the day are often wrong. 100 years ago Hitler had some expert opinions that later we reject. Don't be the next agent orange victim. Question things.
- throwaway5959 3y agoPaging Godwin.