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Actual health care can fix obesity. The USA doesn't do much of that though. It prefers medical care. (E.g., adding a dose-dependent sin tax on food-like subst
by readthenotes1 4mo ago
Actual health care can fix obesity.
The USA doesn't do much of that though. It prefers medical care.
(E.g., adding a dose-dependent sin tax on food-like substances with added sugar, subsidizing real food for those on SNAP. Unpopular because who doesn't want their simple carbs?)
- HDThoreaun 4mo agoI dont think paternalism raises quality of life. If Mississippians want to live short, fat lives I dont see the problem.
- IAmBroom 4mo agoThey don't want to, any more than someone who steps into traffic carelessly wants to have a broken hip (albeit on a different time scale). That's a stunningly paternalistic view.
- HDThoreaun 4mo agoI dont think the people in mississippi who are fat want to have diets that are comparable to french ones. I also think shame and peer pressure play a large role in keeping people from getting fat and personally find that a terrible way to run a society. Of course, all else equal, almost no one wants to be fat, but all else is not equal.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> USA doesn't do much of that America does a lot of that, often quite well. It just isn’t provisioned equally, geographically or class-wise.
- s1artibartfast 4mo agoI prefer forced beatings in the town square