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Before you jump to reactions, remember that there isn't consensus worldwide on what the best approach to this is. For example most countries in the EU also don'

Before you jump to reactions, remember that there isn't consensus worldwide on what the best approach to this is. For example most countries in the EU also don't fluorinate water, but it's instead in toothpaste or table salt or etc.

IAmBroom 2y ago
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- messe 2y ago
  > There isn't a worldwide consensus on genital mutilation and slavery Oh come the fuck on. There's a pretty fucking large gap between water fluoridation and both of those.
  - gwervc 2y ago
    Yes but one of them is still performed at large scale in the US despite all common sense and scientific knowledge.
    - jcranmer 2y ago
      This bill is likely based on the same sort of scientific knowledge that leads people to recommend drinking raw milk. The litmus test to use is if it is banning fluoridation, or if it is reducing the maximum allowable amount of fluoride in the water to something below 0.75 mg/L (the current EPA limit is 4 mg/L). I haven't been able to find the bill text here, but I am virtually certain that it's the former case, which tells me that they're not actually motivated by the supposed harms of fluoride in the >0.75 mg/L range.
    - treetalker 2y ago
      It (circumcision) also pretty clearly unconstitutional and otherwise unlawful. Yahweh and Allah sadly didn't mandate fluoridation when revealing their will for mankind through their prophets. But somehow genital mutilation survives in the US in no small part because of religion.
      - cityofdelusion 2y ago
        Circumcision in the U.S. is largely unrelated to religion, the Jewish and Muslim populations are pretty small. It is a remnant of a fad from the 1880s and Victorian-era nonsense. It’s now culturally engrained, with dads frequently citing aesthetics.
- Etheryte 2y ago
  That last sentence doesn't say anything about America, you might want to consider what makes you so touchy on this subject.
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IAmBroom 2y ago

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messe 2y ago
> There isn't a worldwide consensus on genital mutilation and slavery Oh come the fuck on. There's a pretty fucking large gap between water fluoridation and both of those.
- gwervc 2y ago
  Yes but one of them is still performed at large scale in the US despite all common sense and scientific knowledge.
  - jcranmer 2y ago
    This bill is likely based on the same sort of scientific knowledge that leads people to recommend drinking raw milk. The litmus test to use is if it is banning fluoridation, or if it is reducing the maximum allowable amount of fluoride in the water to something below 0.75 mg/L (the current EPA limit is 4 mg/L). I haven't been able to find the bill text here, but I am virtually certain that it's the former case, which tells me that they're not actually motivated by the supposed harms of fluoride in the >0.75 mg/L range.
  - treetalker 2y ago
    It (circumcision) also pretty clearly unconstitutional and otherwise unlawful. Yahweh and Allah sadly didn't mandate fluoridation when revealing their will for mankind through their prophets. But somehow genital mutilation survives in the US in no small part because of religion.
    - cityofdelusion 2y ago
      Circumcision in the U.S. is largely unrelated to religion, the Jewish and Muslim populations are pretty small. It is a remnant of a fad from the 1880s and Victorian-era nonsense. It’s now culturally engrained, with dads frequently citing aesthetics.
Etheryte 2y ago
That last sentence doesn't say anything about America, you might want to consider what makes you so touchy on this subject.
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