How else can we ensure that people don't make the wrong decision?The point is, the parents make the choices for their children, not the state. How can you say they have failed, when the state takes it upon themselves to make those choices in the first place?
FREEDOM... Look it up.
How else can we ensure that people don't make the wrong decision?
I don't need to look up freedom. I've been confronted with its horrible visage, and declined to grant it my affections.
How else can we ensure that people don't make the wrong decision?
Says who, exactly? You? I certainly do not say that.You don't!
Freedom is about people, families, making their own decisions about their lives. As long as toys and hamburgers are legal, McDonalds has the right to sell them, PERIOD.
What people choose for their families to wear, learn, worship, participate in, and yes, even eat, is completely up to them.
Mark this thread and date.
We've found something that the entire board agrees with (except one).
Certainly, the apocolpyse can't be far behind.
Prosperity!Piece by piece...
...our liberties are gone.
Tell me, what next?
Says who, exactly? You? I certainly do not say that.
McDonalds is a fascist, multi-national economic oppressor that does its utmost to pander terrible food to the most vulnerable among us: children. Put an end to it, find the CEO, and hang him high.
After all, we pay for their mistakes, so we have a say in whether or not they can do this nonsense.
Losing the freedom to become an obese pig and burden the health-care system can only be a boon to the nation.
Prosperity!
Losing the freedom to become an obese pig and burden the health-care system can only be a boon to the nation.
If people were responsible enough not to become obese, they would have this 'freedom' you speak of, however they aren't this responsible.
If you want to participate in this for a laugh. Is it the individuals at fault or the fast food places?
Gay people have never been a threat to the continuation of the human species, so there isn't any real reason to worry about it.And once people lose the freedom of being gay, then we can be assured that the population will never run out!!!
See what I did there? That kind of thinking is plain scary.
Gay people have never been a threat to the continuation of the human species, so there isn't any real reason to worry about it.
Obesity, on the other hand, is a national epidemic that is/will be fantastically expensive.
Nor should they be.That wasn't my point.
When you take away one freedom based on a loosely based correlation, then none of our freedoms are safe.
Gay people have never been a threat to the continuation of the human species, so there isn't any real reason to worry about it.
Obesity, on the other hand, is a national epidemic that is/will be fantastically expensive.
You're asking someone with an anti-libertarian worldview to consider public opinion? I don't care about their opinion.Then push to ban ground beef, hamburger buns and fried potatoes... See how well that agenda flies with the American public.
Nor should they be.
I'm pretty sure that expressing my view in the public sphere is as American as it gets.You just backed up my statement that you're "Anti-American" and left no doubt about it.
You're asking someone with an anti-libertarian worldview to consider public opinion? I don't care about their opinion.
What I would do is end any sort of agriculture subsidy so that we can buy stuff like corn from third world countries cheap, and make eating well easier for the poor.
I'm pretty sure that expressing my view in the public sphere is as American as it gets.
I'm not sure what this nonsense, reactionary accusation of "Anti-American" is, though.
Eating well costs dough, lots of it.Last time I checked, corn was cheaper than a Happy Meal.