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The only fair way to combat obesity Dark Knight Send a noteboard - 13/11/2012 04:03:33 PM
Let's just force fed people what we want them to eat. Who cares about free will (even if that means eating yourself to death)

I would like to see some evidence based health policy (to combat obesity). How does that translate to taking away people's free will?

Btw, I agree with what Stephen said.


Is to develop a much more physically active enviroment. I don't know if you've ever been to Austin, TX but that city is exactly what I am referring to. You see so many people walking, running, and biking. As a nation, we need to stop wasting tax money on stupid wars and start developing programs to encourage and develop a physically fit lifestyle. But we can't take away freedoms, such as ingesting whatever we feel like ingesting. Technically it's not an outright ban, but a suitably high tax amounts to the same thing.
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