>>>>>>>>First it was the end of my McDonald's super-size meals.
>>>>>>>>Then it was Mars Candy ending the king-size snickers bars.
>>>>>>>>Now NYC wants to take away my big-gulps too?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>This is sooo unfair! I'm 6foot and maybe weigh 140lbs. Hey if I want a supersize bigmac, 3 king sized snickers bars and a bucket sized super-big-gulp then I should be allowed to have em! Just because other people are fat and can't seem to control themselves doesn't mean we ALL should suffer!
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>>>>>>>I have no idea what Mayor Bloomberg was thinking. This is never going to fly.
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>>>>>>I hear it's actually getting some support. Perhaps for once the evil capitalistic corporate empires of USA will do something useful politically and buy..errr..lobby their way out of being forced to sell teenee weeene soda's instead of nice bucket sized ones. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>Sure, and then when the vendors start offering a second drink at say, half price, then that will be made illegal too. Finally, it will be against the law to have more than one drink at a time.
>>>>>
>>>>>The whole thing is probably well intentioned, but ultimately, stupid.
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>>>>But isn't it the role of government to organize society in such as way that after Experts Agree, Studies have Shown and there is consensus in Academia that proles who are out there lost and wandering can be guided to choices more sensible than they are capable of making for themselves?
>>>>
>>>>Have you no faith in the Vision of the Annointed?
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>>>to be honest, I don't have an issue with the vision, just with the method and fact of its implimentation. There is nothing wrong with a vision in which nobody eats McDonalds crap - supersized or not (not counting their ice milk, of course). It's the creation of criminality around it that is stupid. It's the fact that they honestly believe they can regulate it that befuddles me. If I decide to have a Coke or a Pepsi, will it be agin the law for me to have a second? Will it be illegal to buy a case of Pepsi at the supermarket and only legal to buy them one can at a time? Clearly nobody thought this through, which is what makes it so indefensibly stupid.
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>>>I see no actual harm in such a law, only stupidity.
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>>Cambridge, MA is stepping up to the plate to demonstrate the harm.
>>MAYOR DAVIS
>>
>>WHEREAS: High intake of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages increases the risk of obesity and diabetes; and
>>
>>WHEREAS:
>> New York City has a plan to limit the serving size of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages sold in restaurants; now therefore be it
>>ORDERED:
>> That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to refer the matter of a ban on soda and sugar-sweetened beverages in restaurants to the Cambridge Public Health Department for a recommendation.
>>
>>http://www2.cambridgema.gov/cityClerk/PolicyOrder.cfm?item_id=35515
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>>Behavior control laws are harmful because they empower the stupid to further impose their vision of life on everyone.
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>I have no issues with a campaign to educate people about the harm in drinking battery acid; oh, sorry, coke, pepsi, etc,

If a group of private citizens wants to preach their vision of healthy living, I too have no problem. So long as there is no taxpayer money involved and no laws imposed which restrict "unhealthy" individual choices.

>but if Davis manages to actually enact a ban and the hoi polloi allow him to keep that ban in force, then they deserve to be ruled by these self-righteous idiots.

Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle merite.

(Of course Maistre wasn't fond of democracy so...)