What's happened to personal responsibility? No one is being forced to eat that shit.
Also, it's San Francisco city that's doing it. Since when did we start backing ultraliberals in their quest to micromanage people's lives like this?
Seriously. It's just like people suing tobacco companies for "giving them lung cancer" or alcohol companies for "making them alcoholics".
It's not like it's some huge secret that this stuff is bad for you. Hell, even liberal Surgeon Generals and HHS heads call them out. School kids are taught that it's not healthy and are urged to make healthier choices. I know this because virtually every week since my boys started school over a decade ago, they come home with some flyer or reminder or project about healthy food choices. It usually specifically calls out processed foods and ultra processed foods. Of course, I do live in Arlington, which is pretty much a socialist city and love to tell people exactly how to act, think, behave, shop, etc...
People would have to be living under a rock to not be aware that this stuff is bad for you.
Now, if the companies are lying about their ingredients or something of that nature, sure. Sue them. But that's not the case here. They're not holding guns to people's heads making them eat this shit. People eat it because they like it. It tastes good. And they value that more than they do their own health. That's on them.
I'm so tired of seeing conservatives jump over to the liberal side of things when it comes to trying to save people from themselves and strip them of responsibility of the choices they make.
Might as well join in on the crusade about making sure everyone wears their seat belts and mollycoddling everyone and making sure that the government steps in on everything to tell people what to do.
When did we decide Big Brother stepping in was preferable to making people responsible for their own decisions?
It's shit like this, Anons throwing in with PBS and the San Francisco government to micromanage peoples lives for them, that makes me think I've stepped into Bizzaro world.
If you don't like ultra processed food, don't eat it. It truly is simple as that. Trying to butt in and tell everyone else what to do is the liberal way.
There's no national mandate that people eat this shit. You won't be threatened with losing your job for not eating it. Your kids won't be blocked from going to school for not eating it.
If the sheep want to poison themselves with it, fucking let them. Thin the herd. Survival of the fittest, for fucks sake.
Thanks. Sometimes I really get the urge to double check what forum I'm on when I see posts like the above.
And then I see a bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon of whatever idiot wagon is taking off and I have to question reality. Thanks for grounding me a bit in knowing it's not just me. ✌️
Gotta jump in on this one. Can’t disagree with some of it but seatbelts? Crash, thrown around the inside of the vehicle…crush another passenger? Not right.
Be injured significantly more than if wearing a seatbelt? Reduce insurance payout by a proportional amount. Why should society pay more because a poor decision by non seatbelt wearing people? Seatbelts save lives.
30 years of designing, engineering and producing child restraints/kids car seats gives me an insight that this is true.
What's happened to personal responsibility? No one is being forced to eat that shit.
Also, it's San Francisco city that's doing it. Since when did we start backing ultraliberals in their quest to micromanage people's lives like this?
Seriously. It's just like people suing tobacco companies for "giving them lung cancer" or alcohol companies for "making them alcoholics".
It's not like it's some huge secret that this stuff is bad for you. Hell, even liberal Surgeon Generals and HHS heads call them out. School kids are taught that it's not healthy and are urged to make healthier choices. I know this because virtually every week since my boys started school over a decade ago, they come home with some flyer or reminder or project about healthy food choices. It usually specifically calls out processed foods and ultra processed foods. Of course, I do live in Arlington, which is pretty much a socialist city and love to tell people exactly how to act, think, behave, shop, etc...
People would have to be living under a rock to not be aware that this stuff is bad for you.
Now, if the companies are lying about their ingredients or something of that nature, sure. Sue them. But that's not the case here. They're not holding guns to people's heads making them eat this shit. People eat it because they like it. It tastes good. And they value that more than they do their own health. That's on them.
I'm so tired of seeing conservatives jump over to the liberal side of things when it comes to trying to save people from themselves and strip them of responsibility of the choices they make.
Might as well join in on the crusade about making sure everyone wears their seat belts and mollycoddling everyone and making sure that the government steps in on everything to tell people what to do.
When did we decide Big Brother stepping in was preferable to making people responsible for their own decisions?
It's shit like this, Anons throwing in with PBS and the San Francisco government to micromanage peoples lives for them, that makes me think I've stepped into Bizzaro world.
If you don't like ultra processed food, don't eat it. It truly is simple as that. Trying to butt in and tell everyone else what to do is the liberal way.
There's no national mandate that people eat this shit. You won't be threatened with losing your job for not eating it. Your kids won't be blocked from going to school for not eating it.
If the sheep want to poison themselves with it, fucking let them. Thin the herd. Survival of the fittest, for fucks sake.
Bakas, you are 100% correct. Excellent post.
Thanks. Sometimes I really get the urge to double check what forum I'm on when I see posts like the above.
And then I see a bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon of whatever idiot wagon is taking off and I have to question reality. Thanks for grounding me a bit in knowing it's not just me. ✌️
Gotta jump in on this one. Can’t disagree with some of it but seatbelts? Crash, thrown around the inside of the vehicle…crush another passenger? Not right.
Be injured significantly more than if wearing a seatbelt? Reduce insurance payout by a proportional amount. Why should society pay more because a poor decision by non seatbelt wearing people? Seatbelts save lives.
30 years of designing, engineering and producing child restraints/kids car seats gives me an insight that this is true.