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You can't make difficult choices you want unless you understand and trained to manipulate your own mind. A society can't become healthier, even if they are wil
by kiba 3y ago
You can't make difficult choices you want unless you understand and trained to manipulate your own mind.
A society can't become healthier, even if they are willing, unless they understood the steps they need to take to become healthier.
Choice are meaningless if you can't do them, which is why they are traps.
- _heimdall 3y agoI'm not really sure how you even describe those as choices, or why you think people are destined to eat junk food. There are absolutely situations where economics or geographic limitations leave some with little choice beyond junk food. Beyond that, eating junk food is a choice. The beauty of choice is that we are offered the freedom to make it. Maybe you never want to eat junk food, or only occasionally, or maybe you really enjoy it and prefer to live on a junk food diet. Its a choice, and one that can be made today and changed tomorrow. Viewing things like exercise and diet as a non choice is insanely dis-empowering. I want to know that I can choose to change if its important to me, I don't want to feel powerless to genetics or the society in which I was born.
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- kiba 3y agoViewing things like exercise and diet as a non choice is insanely dis-empowering. I want to know that I can choose to change if its important to me, I don't want to feel powerless to genetics or the society in which I was born. It's not that I think people are destined to eat junk food, it's that describing what you eat as a choice is shallow and useless. A choice is only meaningful if you are able to implement it. Only with knowledge, training, and technology can you overcome the deficit. Combining that by changing the structure and incentives of society will amplify that effect. If people are continuously trying and failing to implement exercise and weight loss programs, it suggests that our knowledge and tools are incomplete. If we reach the point that obesity and 'lifestyle' related issues are a non-problem or can be overcome successfully long term, only then it becomes a meaningful choice. This is why I emphasized knowledge and skills, cause and effect over freedom of choices. Obesity is not just a problem on an individual level, but also on a societal level. If you want to solve them, you must manipulate all the levels of causality.