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This is how we end up with bans on soft drinks larger than 16 ounces.

• harshreality 14y ago
  Sorry, but I think Bloomberg is on the correct side of that issue, even if he won't win in court. It's becoming increasingly clear that large quantities of sugar are a long-term poison. Since there's no practical use for soft drinks other than "They taste good" (which is a personal-happiness argument, but a particularly juvenile and narrow-minded one), large softdrinks should be banned. If arsenic salts tasted really good, and they were not already banned, would you oppose efforts to get restaurants to stop serving that? Just because a paternalistic state is usually bad doesn't mean that government shouldn't intervene in anything.
  • nulagrithom 14y ago
    Ethanol is poison as well.
  • natrius 14y ago
    Mandated warning labels would be a better idea. Banning things is rarely necessary to achieve policy goals.
• crististm 14y ago
  and on incandescent lamps...