re: Political Differences via an article on Obesity-Eating

but the article doesn't end there:

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The main thing is that it’s too much of a burden for individuals to fight this battle on their own. This is a public health problem — it needs a public health solution. Standards and regulations are the backbone of public health, and we need to develop and implement a series of standards and regulations that will make the food environment safer, so people will automatically get the food they need and not be undermined and influenced to consume food that leads to chronic diseases.

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ah...the middle third of the article explains in great detail how this is a matter of personal choice, and attempts to explain to use how we can make better choices, but then it devolves into a discussion claiming that we cannot make these choices. i reject those claims.

what is the justification for restricting free choice? bad vibes (i shite you not)

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Part of why I think it’s too difficult to be suspicious all the time is that it will put us in an unhappy frame of mind. If we’re going to be asking people to do that, we’re asking them to make themselves miserable, angry and upset all the time. We have to eat three times a day. That’s a lot of negative vibe.

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and to cap it off, almost a perfect explanation of the liberal mindset

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And it didn’t used to be like that. It’s only because our country has been turned into a food swamp, and there’s danger everywhere we go. And that’s a shame. That’s why these standards and regulations are necessary to protect people.

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protecting people from their own bad choices, defined as bad by a magical elite.

...and liberals can't see the irony in their popular anti-religion stance. this is religious-like faith and regulatory control