More of the same, or "It's good for you, stupid!"

[cryowizard]

Once again, our do-goodie liberal friends are trying to legislate personal choice.

This time, it's fast food. They are seriously contemplating using zoning laws to lessen the number of fast food joints "to combat obesity".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5169234.stm

Everbody and their mother knows that gulping down greasy shit you buy at McDonalds on a regular basis is going to kill you. Yet if people choose to do it, they should be allowed to do it until they all fucking die of heart decease. Unless fast food is illegal. Which it isn't. Blah blah blah.

Same argument as with smoking: the concept of freedom includes freedom to be stupid and die of a coronary at 40 because your dumb fat ass was living in McDonalds.

Today it's smoking and greasy food. Tomorrow I won't be allowed to drink alcohol (that shit is baaad). And I will be forced to exercise every day for two hours (not looking well is baaad). And eat only vegan shit (killing cows is baaad).

No brain-dead liberal politician may stand in the way of me eating a nice juicy steak, gulping down a glass of White Lightning, smoking a Cuban cigar and watching nastiest porn ever, all the while comfortably resting my fat ass in a chair made of fresh cow skin and doing absofuckinglutely nothing good to my health. Should such be my choice.

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[baffled-pumpkin.livejournal.com]

So we should restrict a legal business practice and people's personal liberties in order for me the taxpayer to save some of the money I am being raped out of by you the liberals. Awesome!

Liberals are for the freedom of choice when that choice is within the range they find acceptable (we are not talking about abortion). And paying for somebody's irresponsible choices?! With whose money??? The taxpayers! You want to pay for other people? Use your own wallet.


I have no idea how this relates to me. First of all, what do you mean by "you the liberals"? I am not affiliated with any party. Neither, republican, nor democratic, nor green or pink or whatever.
I am just a human being who has views :) Some of them are in sync w/democrats, some w/republicans, and some w/you name it. Having liberal views on abortion, sex, and gay marriage doesn't make me a liberal just as well as having conservative views on tax policies doesn't make me a republican. It is very hard to box me into any political affiliation, so don't even try :)

Another thing is that I think I clearly stated that I am not for paying for somebody's irresponsible choices. And I did say that parents should educate their kids. However, the media sometimes (quite often, I should say) is very invasive and overwhelming. My point was that it is very sad that I should spend my money and energy to fight McDonalds ads, when it can be used on something much more interesting, that's all.

I do agree with your view about changning public opinion on fast food, and everything that goes w/it.
However, there are some extremes. For instance, there is 1 McDonalds on the edge of my neighbourhood. And it is next to the supermarket. Who eats there? People who come from projects several blocks away (hey babe, it's NY, everything is nearby :))

Yes, hamburgers and fries are cheap, but so are the beans, potatoes/other veggies, wholesome breads and meats in a supermarket that do not contain huge amount of transfats and other bad stuff (i am not talking about organic produce). But these people do not want to be educated. And they do use Medicaid. And they do make irresponsible choices.

As for legality, maybe I am such a big opponent of fast food joints because I question whether the food with such high amount of detrimental elements in it should be legal at all. At least lately food companies have been forced to put the amounts of transfats on the label, so people see what they are eating.